The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to Lincoln's inn , he prosecuted the common law with sufficient appearance of application ; yet did not lose his propensity to cards ...
... genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to Lincoln's inn , he prosecuted the common law with sufficient appearance of application ; yet did not lose his propensity to cards ...
Pagina 9
... genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded , at once , their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they ...
... genius , who yet , by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded , at once , their originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they ...
Pagina 63
... genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might consistently magnify to himself the influence of the seasons , and believe his faculties to be vigorous only half the year . His submission to the seasons was , at ...
... genius had fallen upon too old a world , or too chill a climate , might consistently magnify to himself the influence of the seasons , and believe his faculties to be vigorous only half the year . His submission to the seasons was , at ...
Pagina 69
... genius . The demand did not immediately increase ; for many more readers than were supplied at first the nation did not afford . Only three thou- sand were sold in eleven years ; for it forced its way without assistance ; its admirers ...
... genius . The demand did not immediately increase ; for many more readers than were supplied at first the nation did not afford . Only three thou- sand were sold in eleven years ; for it forced its way without assistance ; its admirers ...
Pagina 84
... genius , that they have a cast original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the ...
... genius , that they have a cast original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the ...
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