The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 84
... 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 , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets ...
... 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 , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets ...
Pagina 85
Samuel Johnson. art of doing little things with grace ; he overlooked the milder excellence of suavity and softness : he was a lion , that had no skill " in dandling the kid . ' 99 One of the poems on which much praise has been bestowed ...
Samuel Johnson. art of doing little things with grace ; he overlooked the milder excellence of suavity and softness : he was a lion , that had no skill " in dandling the kid . ' 99 One of the poems on which much praise has been bestowed ...
Pagina 101
... con- fine himself within the limits of rigorous compari- son ; his great excellence is amplitude ; and he expands the adventitious image beyond the dimen- sions which the occasion required . Thus comparing the shield 101 MILTON.
... con- fine himself within the limits of rigorous compari- son ; his great excellence is amplitude ; and he expands the adventitious image beyond the dimen- sions which the occasion required . Thus comparing the shield 101 MILTON.
Pagina 104
Samuel Johnson. business of impartial criticism to discover . As , in displaying the excellence of Milton , I have not made long quotations , because of selecting beauties there had been no end , I shall , in the same general manner ...
Samuel Johnson. business of impartial criticism to discover . As , in displaying the excellence of Milton , I have not made long quotations , because of selecting beauties there had been no end , I shall , in the same general manner ...
Pagina 141
... excellence . What more can be expected from a life spent in ostenta- tious contempt of regularity , and ended , before the abilities of many other men began to be displayed " ! Poema Cl . V. JOANNIS PASSERATII , Regii in Academia ...
... excellence . What more can be expected from a life spent in ostenta- tious contempt of regularity , and ended , before the abilities of many other men began to be displayed " ! Poema Cl . V. JOANNIS PASSERATII , Regii in Academia ...
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