The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 50
... fancy , and the melody of his numbers . He had done what he knew to be necessary previous to poetical excellence ; he had made himself acquainted with seemly arts and affairs ; " his comprehension was extended by various knowledge , and ...
... fancy , and the melody of his numbers . He had done what he knew to be necessary previous to poetical excellence ; he had made himself acquainted with seemly arts and affairs ; " his comprehension was extended by various knowledge , and ...
Pagina 60
... reason thereof , was answered , that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy 60 MILTON.
... reason thereof , was answered , that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy 60 MILTON.
Pagina 61
Samuel Johnson. never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy never so much ; so that , in all the years he was about this poem , he may be said to have spent half his time therein . " Upon this relation Toland remarks , that ...
Samuel Johnson. never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy never so much ; so that , in all the years he was about this poem , he may be said to have spent half his time therein . " Upon this relation Toland remarks , that ...
Pagina 62
... fancy , wild as it is , he had not wholly cleared his head , when he feared lest the climate of his country might be too cold for flights of imagination . a This opinion is , with great learning and ingenuity , refuted in a book now ...
... fancy , wild as it is , he had not wholly cleared his head , when he feared lest the climate of his country might be too cold for flights of imagination . a This opinion is , with great learning and ingenuity , refuted in a book now ...
Pagina 69
... Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current , through fear and silence . I cannot but conceive ...
... Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current , through fear and silence . I cannot but conceive ...
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