The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 71
... pleasure , and , very seldom , so as to convey meaning . If few men would have had resolution to write books with such em- barrassments , few , likewise , would have wanted ability to find some better expedient . Three years after his ...
... pleasure , and , very seldom , so as to convey meaning . If few men would have had resolution to write books with such em- barrassments , few , likewise , would have wanted ability to find some better expedient . Three years after his ...
Pagina 74
... pleasure , as they recalled to his memory the days of youth , but for which nothing but veneration for his name could now procure a reader . When he had attained his sixty - sixth year , the gout , with which he had been long tormented ...
... pleasure , as they recalled to his memory the days of youth , but for which nothing but veneration for his name could now procure a reader . When he had attained his sixty - sixth year , the gout , with which he had been long tormented ...
Pagina 86
... 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 . The author's de- 1 sign is not , what Theobald has ...
... 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 . The author's de- 1 sign is not , what Theobald has ...
Pagina 88
... pleasures of the bottle . The man of cheerfulness , having exhausted the country , tries what " towered cities " will afford , and mingles with scenes of splendour , gay assemblies , and nuptial festivities ; but he mingles a mere spec ...
... pleasures of the bottle . The man of cheerfulness , having exhausted the country , tries what " towered cities " will afford , and mingles with scenes of splendour , gay assemblies , and nuptial festivities ; but he mingles a mere spec ...
Pagina 91
... pleasure are so general , that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment , and take no dangerous hold on the fancy . The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant , but tedious . The song must owe much to the ...
... pleasure are so general , that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment , and take no dangerous hold on the fancy . The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant , but tedious . The song must owe much to the ...
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