The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 6
... character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word and line by line . Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose ...
... character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word and line by line . Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose ...
Pagina 20
... character is finely portrayed . Her sister , lady Mary , was given in marriage to lord Herbert , of Cherbury ... characters of Comus and his attendants are delineated , and the delights of sensualists exposed and reprobated . This little ...
... character is finely portrayed . Her sister , lady Mary , was given in marriage to lord Herbert , of Cherbury ... characters of Comus and his attendants are delineated , and the delights of sensualists exposed and reprobated . This little ...
Pagina 27
... character immediately appears . Those authors , therefore , are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence , most princi- ples of moral truth , and most materials for conver- sation ; and these purposes are best served by ...
... character immediately appears . Those authors , therefore , are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence , most princi- ples of moral truth , and most materials for conver- sation ; and these purposes are best served by ...
Pagina 36
... character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not , about this time , a design of making him an adjutant- general in sir William Waller's army . But the new ...
... character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not , about this time , a design of making him an adjutant- general in sir William Waller's army . But the new ...
Pagina 40
... character , could dispose her to favour the doctrine , who was by birth a queen , and by temper despotick . That Salmasius was , from the appearance of Milton's book , treated with neglect , there is not much proof ; but to a man , so ...
... character , could dispose her to favour the doctrine , who was by birth a queen , and by temper despotick . That Salmasius was , from the appearance of Milton's book , treated with neglect , there is not much proof ; but to a man , so ...
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