Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... learning in England was at its very lowest ebb , and even Oxford had then no name to place beside Johnson's in after celebrity ; with , perhaps , the single exception of John Wesley , who was a Fellow of Lincoln at the time when Johnson ...
... learning in England was at its very lowest ebb , and even Oxford had then no name to place beside Johnson's in after celebrity ; with , perhaps , the single exception of John Wesley , who was a Fellow of Lincoln at the time when Johnson ...
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... learning , to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil , envy , want , the garret , and the jail 1 . ' Leaving Oxford , Johnson found himself turned loose upon the world . From his father , who had died in the ...
... learning , to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil , envy , want , the garret , and the jail 1 . ' Leaving Oxford , Johnson found himself turned loose upon the world . From his father , who had died in the ...
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... learning , I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it , if less be possible , with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope , in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation , ' MY LORD , ' Your ...
... learning , I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it , if less be possible , with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope , in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation , ' MY LORD , ' Your ...
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... learning and genius to have laboured science into poetry , and have shown , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy ' ( p . 81 ) . Now the principles of poetical criticism are here mistaken ...
... learning and genius to have laboured science into poetry , and have shown , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy ' ( p . 81 ) . Now the principles of poetical criticism are here mistaken ...
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... learning had fallen has been already noticed ; and Johnson , whose scholarship was rather wide than ac- curate , found nevertheless few equals in knowledge of the classic languages . To him Latin appeared a necessity , and the genius of ...
... learning had fallen has been already noticed ; and Johnson , whose scholarship was rather wide than ac- curate , found nevertheless few equals in knowledge of the classic languages . To him Latin appeared a necessity , and the genius of ...
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