The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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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 17
... poem , which mentions his exile , proves , likewise , that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a resolution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured , from the willingness with which he has perpetuated ...
... poem , which mentions his exile , proves , likewise , that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a resolution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured , from the willingness with which he has perpetuated ...
Pagina 23
... poems ; though he says , he cannot be suspected but to have known that they were said , " non tam de se , quam supra se ... poem , which must have raised an high opinion of English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have ...
... poems ; though he says , he cannot be suspected but to have known that they were said , " non tam de se , quam supra se ... poem , which must have raised an high opinion of English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have ...
Pagina 24
... poem , entitled Epitaphium Damonis , written with the common , but childish , imitation of pastoral life . He now hired a lodging at the house of one Rus- sel , a tailor , in St. Bride's church - yard , and under- took the education of ...
... poem , entitled Epitaphium Damonis , written with the common , but childish , imitation of pastoral life . He now hired a lodging at the house of one Rus- sel , a tailor , in St. Bride's church - yard , and under- took the education of ...
Pagina 45
... poem , the history of his country , and a dictionary of the Latin tongue . To collect a dictionary , seems a work of all others least practicable in a state of blindness , because it depends upon perpetual and minute inspection and ...
... poem , the history of his country , and a dictionary of the Latin tongue . To collect a dictionary , seems a work of all others least practicable in a state of blindness , because it depends upon perpetual and minute inspection and ...
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