The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8 |
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Pagina 77
There is yet no reason to believe that he was ever reduced to indigence . His
wants , being few , were competently supplied . He sold his library before his
death , and left his family fifteen hundred pounds , on which his widow laid hold ,
and ...
There is yet no reason to believe that he was ever reduced to indigence . His
wants , being few , were competently supplied . He sold his library before his
death , and left his family fifteen hundred pounds , on which his widow laid hold ,
and ...
Pagina 86
Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he
not known the author . Of the two pieces , L'Allegro and Il Penseroso , I believe ,
opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure .
Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he
not known the author . Of the two pieces , L'Allegro and Il Penseroso , I believe ,
opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure .
Pagina 108
The confusion of spirit and matter , which pervades the whole narration of the war
of heaven , fills it with incongruity ; and the book in which it is related is , I believe
, the favourite of children , and gradually neglected , as knowledge is increased ...
The confusion of spirit and matter , which pervades the whole narration of the war
of heaven , fills it with incongruity ; and the book in which it is related is , I believe
, the favourite of children , and gradually neglected , as knowledge is increased ...
Pagina 127
have been easily forgiven , if there had been action enough ; but , I believe ,
every reader regrets the paucity of events , and complains that , in the poem of
Hudibras , as in the history of Thucydides , there is more said than done . The
scenes ...
have been easily forgiven , if there had been action enough ; but , I believe ,
every reader regrets the paucity of events , and complains that , in the poem of
Hudibras , as in the history of Thucydides , there is more said than done . The
scenes ...
Pagina 132
It is certain , that the credit of planetary intelligence wore fast away ; though some
men of knowledge , and Dryden among them , continued to believe that
conjunctions and oppositions had a great part in the distribution of good or evil ,
and in ...
It is certain , that the credit of planetary intelligence wore fast away ; though some
men of knowledge , and Dryden among them , continued to believe that
conjunctions and oppositions had a great part in the distribution of good or evil ,
and in ...
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