The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xxi
... 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 with literary ...
... 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 with literary ...
Pàgina 9
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of 6 disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by COWLEY 9.
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of 6 disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by COWLEY 9.
Pàgina 10
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say ; Nor would he have had , ' tis thought a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say ; Nor would he have had , ' tis thought a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
Pàgina 115
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home ...
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home ...
Pàgina 131
... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art , it is not necessary to mention , because they ...
... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art , it is not necessary to mention , because they ...
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