The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 7
... original author . He seems to have been , at 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 ...
... original author . He seems to have been , at 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 ...
Pagina 9
... originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on Old Age has ...
... originals and themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on Old Age has ...
Pagina 39
... original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what was ...
... original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what was ...
Pagina 58
... original design has been variously conjectured , by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last , neither dili- gence nor sagacity can discover . Some find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a ...
... original design has been variously conjectured , by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last , neither dili- gence nor sagacity can discover . Some find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a ...
Pagina 84
... original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new ...
... original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new ...
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