The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 223
Samuel Johnson. ample testimony in this remark : " I know not how it is , but lord Buckhurst may do what he will , yet is never in the wrong . If such a man attempted poetry , we cannot won- der that his works were praised . Dryden ...
Samuel Johnson. ample testimony in this remark : " I know not how it is , but lord Buckhurst may do what he will , yet is never in the wrong . If such a man attempted poetry , we cannot won- der that his works were praised . Dryden ...
Pagina 231
... remarks , that in all his writings , except Blenheim , he has found an opportunity of celebrating the fra- grant fume . In common life he was probably one of those who please by not offending , and whose person was loved because his ...
... remarks , that in all his writings , except Blenheim , he has found an opportunity of celebrating the fra- grant fume . In common life he was probably one of those who please by not offending , and whose person was loved because his ...
Pagina 245
... remarks , ostentatiously splendid in his dress . He was , like- wise , a member of parliament and a courtier , knight of the shire for his native county in several parlia- ments ; in another the representative of Richmond in Yorkshire ...
... remarks , ostentatiously splendid in his dress . He was , like- wise , a member of parliament and a courtier , knight of the shire for his native county in several parlia- ments ; in another the representative of Richmond in Yorkshire ...
Pagina 259
... remark . Hav- ing gone through the first act , he says : " To con- clude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : 66 " To flatt'ring lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild ...
... remark . Hav- ing gone through the first act , he says : " To con- clude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : 66 " To flatt'ring lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild ...
Pagina 264
... remarks on the fathers of English drama . Shakespeare's plots , he says , are in the hun- dred novels of Cinthio ; those of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonson only made them for himself . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
... remarks on the fathers of English drama . Shakespeare's plots , he says , are in the hun- dred novels of Cinthio ; those of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonson only made them for himself . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
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