The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 6
... thoughts , but poorly stick at words , A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , To make translations and translators too , They but preserve the ashes ; thou the flame , True to his sense , but truer to his fame . • It is remarkable that ...
... thoughts , but poorly stick at words , A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , To make translations and translators too , They but preserve the ashes ; thou the flame , True to his sense , but truer to his fame . • It is remarkable that ...
Pagina 7
... thoughts are just . Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry ...
... thoughts are just . Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry ...
Pagina 13
... thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . John Milton was , by birth , a gentleman , de- scended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom forfeited his estate in the times of York and ...
... thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . John Milton was , by birth , a gentleman , de- scended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom forfeited his estate in the times of York and ...
Pagina 15
... thought worthy of the publick eye ; but they raise no great expectations : they would , in any numerous school , have obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by ...
... thought worthy of the publick eye ; but they raise no great expectations : they would , in any numerous school , have obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by ...
Pagina 18
... thought it better to prefer a blameless silence , before the office g By the mention of this name , he evidently refers to Albumazar , acted at Cambridge , in 1614. Ignoramus , and other plays were performed at the same time . The ...
... thought it better to prefer a blameless silence , before the office g By the mention of this name , he evidently refers to Albumazar , acted at Cambridge , in 1614. Ignoramus , and other plays were performed at the same time . The ...
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