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Pàgina ix
... once been rivalled and never excelled . The attempt in this place to condense that masterpiece were vain . It must suffice to note that Johnson undertook The Lives of the Poets- the only work of capital importance which the last twenty ...
... once been rivalled and never excelled . The attempt in this place to condense that masterpiece were vain . It must suffice to note that Johnson undertook The Lives of the Poets- the only work of capital importance which the last twenty ...
Pàgina xii
... Once more : " Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole . Other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedionsness propagates itself ...
... Once more : " Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole . Other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedionsness propagates itself ...
Pàgina xx
... once employed by Johnson , and that not without courage or address , as when he says : ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author ' ; or hints a natural doubt as to the genuineness ...
... once employed by Johnson , and that not without courage or address , as when he says : ' Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author ' ; or hints a natural doubt as to the genuineness ...
Pàgina xxi
... once comes into play . In a very remarkable passage Johnson deliberately chooses his tribunal . Speaking of Gray's Elegy , he rejoices to concur with the common reader : ' for , ' says he , ' by the common sense of readers uncorrupted ...
... once comes into play . In a very remarkable passage Johnson deliberately chooses his tribunal . Speaking of Gray's Elegy , he rejoices to concur with the common reader : ' for , ' says he , ' by the common sense of readers uncorrupted ...
Pàgina xxii
... - respect , mark his animadversions on Swift's commerce with the great , or on the pettiness of Milton's biographers who had rather not mention that their hero was once a schoolmaster ! Consider , xxii INTRODUCTION TO.
... - respect , mark his animadversions on Swift's commerce with the great , or on the pettiness of Milton's biographers who had rather not mention that their hero was once a schoolmaster ! Consider , xxii INTRODUCTION TO.
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