The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 145
... lord Roscommon , being a boy of ten years of age , at Caen in Normandy , one day was , as it were , madly extravagant in playing , leaping , getting over the tables , boards , & c . He was wont to be sober enough ; they said , God grant ...
... lord Roscommon , being a boy of ten years of age , at Caen in Normandy , one day was , as it were , madly extravagant in playing , leaping , getting over the tables , boards , & c . He was wont to be sober enough ; they said , God grant ...
Pagina 151
... lord Roscommon's Essay on Trans- lated Verse , " says Dryden , " which made me un- account of Mr. John Pomfret , prefixed to his Remains ; who asserts , that the Prospect of Death was written by that person , many years after lord ...
... lord Roscommon's Essay on Trans- lated Verse , " says Dryden , " which made me un- account of Mr. John Pomfret , prefixed to his Remains ; who asserts , that the Prospect of Death was written by that person , many years after lord ...
Pagina 152
... lord Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from ...
... lord Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from ...
Pagina 154
... Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising young noblemen in Ireland . He has paraphrased a psalm admirably ; and a scene of Pastor Fido , very finely , in some places much bet- ter than sir Richard Fanshaw ...
... Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising young noblemen in Ireland . He has paraphrased a psalm admirably ; and a scene of Pastor Fido , very finely , in some places much bet- ter than sir Richard Fanshaw ...
Pagina 155
... lord Roscommon gave them a prologue , and sir Edward Deering , an epilogue ; " which , " says she , " are the best performances of those kinds I ever saw . " If this is not criticism , it is , at least , gratitude . The thought of ...
... lord Roscommon gave them a prologue , and sir Edward Deering , an epilogue ; " which , " says she , " are the best performances of those kinds I ever saw . " If this is not criticism , it is , at least , gratitude . The thought of ...
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