The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 8
... poetry . He appears to have been one of the first that un- derstood the necessity of emancipating translation from the drudgery of counting lines , and interpret- ing single words . How much this servile practice obscured the clearest ...
... poetry . He appears to have been one of the first that un- derstood the necessity of emancipating translation from the drudgery of counting lines , and interpret- ing single words . How much this servile practice obscured the clearest ...
Pagina 9
... poetry . The " strength of Denham , " which Pope so em- phatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames ...
... poetry . The " strength of Denham , " which Pope so em- phatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames ...
Pagina 11
... poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'd Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : From thence a thousand lesser poets sprung Like petty ...
... poets , though now and then the reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'd Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : From thence a thousand lesser poets sprung Like petty ...
Pagina 14
... poet , and from whom is derived the only authentick account of his domestick manners . John , the poet , was born in his father's house , at the Spread - eagle , in Bread street , Dec. 9 , 1608 , be- tween six and seven in the morning ...
... poet , and from whom is derived the only authentick account of his domestick manners . John , the poet , was born in his father's house , at the Spread - eagle , in Bread street , Dec. 9 , 1608 , be- tween six and seven in the morning ...
Pagina 21
... poetry , and his malignity to the church by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . He is supposed about this time to have written his Arcades ; for , while he lived at Horton , he used sometimes to steal ...
... poetry , and his malignity to the church by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . He is supposed about this time to have written his Arcades ; for , while he lived at Horton , he used sometimes to steal ...
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