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... excellence as a biographer , which made the ' Lives of the Poets ' an English classic . Johnson's conception of the duties of a biographer was liberal and comprehensive . He made no attempt to idealise the men whose lives he wrote , and ...
... excellence as a biographer , which made the ' Lives of the Poets ' an English classic . Johnson's conception of the duties of a biographer was liberal and comprehensive . He made no attempt to idealise the men whose lives he wrote , and ...
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... excellence is truth . He praises one of Gray's Odes because it is at once rational and poetical . ' He complains that another does not ' promote any truth , moral or political . ' Johnson's love of logical consistency appears in his ...
... excellence is truth . He praises one of Gray's Odes because it is at once rational and poetical . ' He complains that another does not ' promote any truth , moral or political . ' Johnson's love of logical consistency appears in his ...
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... excellence ; nor could 20 there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by ...
... excellence ; nor could 20 there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by ...
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... excellence were different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that 20 he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been ...
... excellence were different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that 20 he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been ...
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... excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by re- pulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets ...
... excellence ; if they differ from the verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by re- pulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets ...
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Seite 93 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 98 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Seite 118 - He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly, but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found...
Seite 101 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Seite 138 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Seite 116 - Lombards; if to the instinct of nature and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted, and that there be nothing adverse in our climate or the fate of this age, it haply would be no rashness, from an equal diligence and inclination, to present the like offer in our own ancient stories...
Seite 14 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Seite 122 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed and become safely habitable again, he returned thither.
Seite 97 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compar'd.
Seite 58 - Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them with pleasure.