The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 146
... remarking , that he seemed to have one favourite catastrophe , as his three plays all con- cluded with lavish suicide ; a method by which , as Dryden remarked , a poet easily rids his scene of per- sons whom he wants not to keep alive ...
... remarking , that he seemed to have one favourite catastrophe , as his three plays all con- cluded with lavish suicide ; a method by which , as Dryden remarked , a poet easily rids his scene of per- sons whom he wants not to keep alive ...
Pagina 151
... remarked of him , that he was the only Scot , whom Scotchmen did not commend . About this time Pope , whom he visited familiarly , published his Essay on Man , but concealed the au- thor ; and , when Mallet entered one day , Pope asked ...
... remarked of him , that he was the only Scot , whom Scotchmen did not commend . About this time Pope , whom he visited familiarly , published his Essay on Man , but concealed the au- thor ; and , when Mallet entered one day , Pope asked ...
Pagina 212
... remarked . The great labour is yet to come , the labour of in- terpreting these words and phrases with brevity , fulness , and perspicuity ; a task of which the extent and intricacy is sufficiently shown by the miscar- riage of those ...
... remarked . The great labour is yet to come , the labour of in- terpreting these words and phrases with brevity , fulness , and perspicuity ; a task of which the extent and intricacy is sufficiently shown by the miscar- riage of those ...
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