The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 5
... less exhilarating than the ludicrousness of Denham ; he does not fail for want of efforts ; he is familiar , he is gross ; but he is never merry , unless the Speech against Peace in the close Committee be excepted . For grave burlesque ...
... less exhilarating than the ludicrousness of Denham ; he does not fail for want of efforts ; he is familiar , he is gross ; but he is never merry , unless the Speech against Peace in the close Committee be excepted . For grave burlesque ...
Pagina 9
... less guilty wealth t ' explore , Search not his bottom , but survey his shore . On Strafford . His wisdom such , at once , it did appear Three kingdoms ' wonder , and three kingdoms ' fear . While single he stood forth , and seem'd ...
... less guilty wealth t ' explore , Search not his bottom , but survey his shore . On Strafford . His wisdom such , at once , it did appear Three kingdoms ' wonder , and three kingdoms ' fear . While single he stood forth , and seem'd ...
Pagina 10
... I attest , and call To witness for myself , that in their fall No foes , no death , nor danger , I declin'd , Did , and deserv'd no less , my fate to find . From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained 10 DENHAM.
... I attest , and call To witness for myself , that in their fall No foes , no death , nor danger , I declin'd , Did , and deserv'd no less , my fate to find . From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained 10 DENHAM.
Pagina 12
... less skilful , or , at 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 ...
... less skilful , or , at 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 ...
Pagina 30
... less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been suspected of in- continence , gives an ...
... less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been suspected of in- continence , gives an ...
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