The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 5
... never merry , unless the Speech against Peace in the close Committee be excepted . For grave burlesque , however , his imitation of Davenant shows him to have been well qualified . Of his more elevated occasional poems , there is ...
... never merry , unless the Speech against Peace in the close Committee be excepted . For grave burlesque , however , his imitation of Davenant shows him to have been well qualified . Of his more elevated occasional poems , there is ...
Pagina 15
... never rose to works like Paradise Lost . At fifteen , a date which he uses till he is sixteen , he translated or versified two psalms , 114 and 136 , which he thought worthy of the publick eye ; but they raise no great expectations ...
... never rose to works like Paradise Lost . At fifteen , a date which he uses till he is sixteen , he translated or versified two psalms , 114 and 136 , which he thought worthy of the publick eye ; but they raise no great expectations ...
Pagina 20
... never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : " a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . " His next production was Lycidas , an elegy , writ- ten in 1637 , on the death of Mr. King , the son of ...
... never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : " a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . " His next production was Lycidas , an elegy , writ- ten in 1637 , on the death of Mr. King , the son of ...
Pagina 30
... never greatly admired , but now much 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 ...
... never greatly admired , but now much 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 ...
Pagina 35
... never long out of his thoughts . About this time ( 1645 ) a collection of his Latin and English poems appeared , in which the Allegro and Penseroso , with some others , were first published . He had taken a large house in Barbican , for ...
... never long out of his thoughts . About this time ( 1645 ) a collection of his Latin and English poems appeared , in which the Allegro and Penseroso , with some others , were first published . He had taken a large house in Barbican , for ...
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