The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 26
... formed wonders ; and a formidable list is given of the authors , Greek and Latin , that were read in Aldersgate street , by youth between ten and fifteen or sixteen years of age . Those who tell or receive these stories should consider ...
... formed wonders ; and a formidable list is given of the authors , Greek and Latin , that were read in Aldersgate street , by youth between ten and fifteen or sixteen years of age . Those who tell or receive these stories should consider ...
Pagina 49
... , and is in- formed by some angel the manner of the fall . Here the chorus bewails Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accuse one another ; but especially Adam VOL . 8-4 49 lays the blame to his wife ; is stubborn in MILTON.
... , and is in- formed by some angel the manner of the fall . Here the chorus bewails Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accuse one another ; but especially Adam VOL . 8-4 49 lays the blame to his wife ; is stubborn in MILTON.
Pagina 89
... formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment approved , and from which he never en- deavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits ...
... formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment approved , and from which he never en- deavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits ...
Pagina 99
... formation of this poem , that , as it admits no human manners , till the fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that fortitude ...
... formation of this poem , that , as it admits no human manners , till the fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that fortitude ...
Pagina 112
... formed his style by a perverse and pedantick principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgment operates freely , neither softened by the beauty ...
... formed his style by a perverse and pedantick principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgment operates freely , neither softened by the beauty ...
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