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Page 140
The general character of his poetry is elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick
, and very rarely sublime . He seems to have had a mind neither much elevated
by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal ...
The general character of his poetry is elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick
, and very rarely sublime . He seems to have had a mind neither much elevated
by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal ...
Page 370
In his description both of life and nature , the poet and the philosopher happily co
- operate ; truth is recommended by elegance , and elegance sustained by truth .
In the structure and order of the poem , not only the greater parts are properly ...
In his description both of life and nature , the poet and the philosopher happily co
- operate ; truth is recommended by elegance , and elegance sustained by truth .
In the structure and order of the poem , not only the greater parts are properly ...
Page 568
... of the world so much altered , and the demand for elegance so much increased
, that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of
borrowed passages , very few cán be shewn which he has not embellished .
... of the world so much altered , and the demand for elegance so much increased
, that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of
borrowed passages , very few cán be shewn which he has not embellished .
Page 587
He was , in 1714 , received as a scholar into Winchester College , where he was
distinguished by exercises of uncommon elegance ; and , at his removal to New
College in 1719 , presented to the electors , as the product of his private and ...
He was , in 1714 , received as a scholar into Winchester College , where he was
distinguished by exercises of uncommon elegance ; and , at his removal to New
College in 1719 , presented to the electors , as the product of his private and ...
Page 612
... written with sufficient knowledge of the manners that prevailed in the age to
which it is referred , and with great elegance of diction ; but , for want of a process
of events , neither knowledge nor elegance preserve the reader from weariness .
... written with sufficient knowledge of the manners that prevailed in the age to
which it is referred , and with great elegance of diction ; but , for want of a process
of events , neither knowledge nor elegance preserve the reader from weariness .
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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