The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 5
... English poetry . " Denham and Waller , " says Prior , " improved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various compositions , descriptive , ludicrous , didactick , and sublime . He appears to have had ...
... English poetry . " Denham and Waller , " says Prior , " improved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various compositions , descriptive , ludicrous , didactick , and sublime . He appears to have had ...
Pagina 14
... English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's school , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and removed , in the ...
... English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's school , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and removed , in the ...
Pagina 23
... English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the king and parliament , he thought it proper to hasten home , rather than pass his life in foreign ...
... English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the king and parliament , he thought it proper to hasten home , rather than pass his life in foreign ...
Pagina 35
... English poems appeared , in which the Allegro and Penseroso , with some others , were first published . He had taken a large house in Barbican , for the reception of scholars ; but the numerous relations of his wife , to whom he ...
... English poems appeared , in which the Allegro and Penseroso , with some others , were first published . He had taken a large house in Barbican , for the reception of scholars ; but the numerous relations of his wife , to whom he ...
Pagina 57
... English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French , " required that Elwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task trouble ...
... English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French , " required that Elwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task trouble ...
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