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Page 7
He continued , ” says his biographer , " under these bonds till the general
deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and
act again for the King , without the consent of his bondsman ; that he did not shew
his ...
He continued , ” says his biographer , " under these bonds till the general
deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and
act again for the King , without the consent of his bondsman ; that he did not shew
his ...
Page 37
Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be
supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the sight might have suggested
. When Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the
...
Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be
supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the sight might have suggested
. When Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the
...
Page 54
This passage exhibits one of those triplets which are not infrequent in this first
essay , but which it is to be supposed his maturer judgment disapproved , since
in his latter works he has totally forborne them . His rhymes are such as seem
found ...
This passage exhibits one of those triplets which are not infrequent in this first
essay , but which it is to be supposed his maturer judgment disapproved , since
in his latter works he has totally forborne them . His rhymes are such as seem
found ...
Page 60
It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done nothing else ;
but Milton found time to write the mask of “ Comus , " which was presented at
Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in 1634 ; and had the
...
It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done nothing else ;
but Milton found time to write the mask of “ Comus , " which was presented at
Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in 1634 ; and had the
...
Page 71
But as Nemesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has enforced the
charge of a solecism by an expression in itself grossly solecistical , when for one
of those supposed blunders , he says , as Ker , and I think some one before him ...
But as Nemesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has enforced the
charge of a solecism by an expression in itself grossly solecistical , when for one
of those supposed blunders , he says , as Ker , and I think some one before him ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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