Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... remarks a too harshly oracular tone . Byron's satire against critical writers in general- ' A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure , critics all are ready - made , " 2 certainly did not in any sense apply to Johnson . He ...
... remarks a too harshly oracular tone . Byron's satire against critical writers in general- ' A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure , critics all are ready - made , " 2 certainly did not in any sense apply to Johnson . He ...
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... remarks , to note how vast had been the change in little more than a generation . Valuable as these two cautions are , they do not yet amount to a real test , an actual , tangible phenomenon , by whose presence or absence we may judge ...
... remarks , to note how vast had been the change in little more than a generation . Valuable as these two cautions are , they do not yet amount to a real test , an actual , tangible phenomenon , by whose presence or absence we may judge ...
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... Remarks teeming with literary wisdom are scattered about his pages so profusely that some easily escape any more serious attention than is excited by the pass- ing pleasure of reading them for the first time . Like all true classics ...
... Remarks teeming with literary wisdom are scattered about his pages so profusely that some easily escape any more serious attention than is excited by the pass- ing pleasure of reading them for the first time . Like all true classics ...
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... remark and epigram . Caring little for the minutiae of this or that particular existence , Johnson knew the facts of human life in general , and in his Lives of the Poets has written a biography of mankind . The edition followed in the ...
... remark and epigram . Caring little for the minutiae of this or that particular existence , Johnson knew the facts of human life in general , and in his Lives of the Poets has written a biography of mankind . The edition followed in the ...
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... remark . Having gone through the first act , he says , ' To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet , — IO " To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which back'd with thunder do but gild a ...
... remark . Having gone through the first act , he says , ' To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet , — IO " To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which back'd with thunder do but gild a ...
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