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Pagina 5
Nothing is 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
...
Nothing is 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 15
Of the powers of the mind it is difficult to form an estimate : many have excelled
Milton in their first essays , who 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
...
Of the powers of the mind it is difficult to form an estimate : many have excelled
Milton in their first essays , who 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
...
Pagina 20
The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe " ; but we 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 , written in
1637 ...
The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe " ; but we 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 , written in
1637 ...
Pagina 30
... university , in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I 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 ...
... university , in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I 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 ...
Pagina 35
But whatever were his engagements , civil or domestick , poetry was 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
...
But whatever were his engagements , civil or domestick , poetry was 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
...
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| Titolo | The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autore | Samuel Johnson |
| Editore | Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Indiana University |
| Digitalizzato | 30 gen 2009 |
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