The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 35
... performance is commonly said to smell of the lamp , my commendation of a noble thought , a sprightly sally , or a bold figure , is to pronounce it fresh from the garret ; an expression which would break from me upon the perusal of most ...
... performance is commonly said to smell of the lamp , my commendation of a noble thought , a sprightly sally , or a bold figure , is to pronounce it fresh from the garret ; an expression which would break from me upon the perusal of most ...
Pagina 63
... performances of others , or from abstracted contemplation of the thing to be attempted . Whatever is done skilfully appears to be done with ease ; and art , when it is once matured to habit , vanishes from observation . We are therefore ...
... performances of others , or from abstracted contemplation of the thing to be attempted . Whatever is done skilfully appears to be done with ease ; and art , when it is once matured to habit , vanishes from observation . We are therefore ...
Pagina 69
... performance ; and that the sons of learning have laid down several of your late papers with discontent , when they found that Misocapelus had delayed to continue his narrative . But the desire of gratifying the expectations that I have ...
... performance ; and that the sons of learning have laid down several of your late papers with discontent , when they found that Misocapelus had delayed to continue his narrative . But the desire of gratifying the expectations that I have ...
Pagina 73
... performance I had per- secuted through the nine nights , wrote an epigram upon Tape the critick , which drove me from the pit for ever . My desire to be a fine gentleman still continued : I therefore , after a short suspense , chose a ...
... performance I had per- secuted through the nine nights , wrote an epigram upon Tape the critick , which drove me from the pit for ever . My desire to be a fine gentleman still continued : I therefore , after a short suspense , chose a ...
Pagina 94
... performances . But whatever was his intent , it is remarked by Scaliger , that he very little promoted his own repu- tation , because he fell below the promise which his first productions had given , and in the latter part of his life ...
... performances . But whatever was his intent , it is remarked by Scaliger , that he very little promoted his own repu- tation , because he fell below the promise which his first productions had given , and in the latter part of his life ...
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