The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... least suspected it : " an observation which could have had no propriety had his poetical abilities been known before . He was after that pricked for sheriff of Surrey , and made governour of Farnham castle for the king ; but he soon ...
... least suspected it : " an observation which could have had no propriety had his poetical abilities been known before . He was after that pricked for sheriff of Surrey , and made governour of Farnham castle for the king ; but he soon ...
Pagina 7
... least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be ...
... least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be ...
Pagina 11
... least , as those of other poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'd Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : From thence a thousand lesser ...
... least , as those of other poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'd Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : From thence a thousand lesser ...
Pagina 12
... least , less dex- terous in the use of words ; and though they had been more frequent , they could only have lessened the grace , not the strength of his composition . He is one of the writers that improved our taste , and advanced our ...
... least , less dex- terous in the use of words ; and though they had been more frequent , they could only have lessened the grace , not the strength of his composition . He is one of the writers that improved our taste , and advanced our ...
Pagina 35
... least of pedantry . 99 Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be denied , and what might be confessed with- out disgrace . Milton was not a man who could be- come mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmest ...
... least of pedantry . 99 Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be denied , and what might be confessed with- out disgrace . Milton was not a man who could be- come mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmest ...
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