The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand , he escaped hap- pily both for himself and his friends . He was yet engaged in a greater undertaking . In April , 1648 , he conveyed James , the duke of York , from London into France , and delivered him ...
... knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand , he escaped hap- pily both for himself and his friends . He was yet engaged in a greater undertaking . In April , 1648 , he conveyed James , the duke of York , from London into France , and delivered him ...
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... knowledge , but by poetical 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 ...
... knowledge , but by poetical 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 ...
Pagina 26
... knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge re- quires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or ...
... knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge re- quires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or ...
Pagina 27
Samuel Johnson. and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind , and with those examples which may be said to embody truth , and prove , by events , the reasonableness of opinions ...
Samuel Johnson. and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind , and with those examples which may be said to embody truth , and prove , by events , the reasonableness of opinions ...
Pagina 28
... knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small history of poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which , perhaps , none of my readers has ever heard ' . That in his school , as in every thing else which he ...
... knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small history of poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which , perhaps , none of my readers has ever heard ' . That in his school , as in every thing else which he ...
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