Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... writers lived , of the side of that age which they both saw most clearly , and of a remonstrance against the prevailing optimism which was rendering men far too blind to the wrongness of things around them . The line of demarcation ...
... writers lived , of the side of that age which they both saw most clearly , and of a remonstrance against the prevailing optimism which was rendering men far too blind to the wrongness of things around them . The line of demarcation ...
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... writing satires , and to differ in party politics from Pope was like riding a tilt at Launcelot - apt to be rough ... writer : -a citizen of the Grub Street republic was to become dictator in the world of literature . Thus as a man , as ...
... writing satires , and to differ in party politics from Pope was like riding a tilt at Launcelot - apt to be rough ... writer : -a citizen of the Grub Street republic was to become dictator in the world of literature . Thus as a man , as ...
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... writers have exhausted much small wit ; as if they held that intensity of love could be a monopoly of graceful limbs and regular features . Certain it is that Johnson remembered his wife with undying affection through a widowhood of ...
... writers have exhausted much small wit ; as if they held that intensity of love could be a monopoly of graceful limbs and regular features . Certain it is that Johnson remembered his wife with undying affection through a widowhood of ...
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... writer , of his day , could cope with him in the extent and accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in ...
... writer , of his day , could cope with him in the extent and accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in ...
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... writers of his day . Knowledge so superior naturally begets self- confidence , also an indispensable qualification in a critic , though one which was somewhat in excess in Johnson , and gave now and then to his critical remarks a too ...
... writers of his day . Knowledge so superior naturally begets self- confidence , also an indispensable qualification in a critic , though one which was somewhat in excess in Johnson , and gave now and then to his critical remarks a too ...
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