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Page 78
She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of
Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here incredulity is ready to make a
stand . Many repetitions are necessary to fix in memory lines not understood ;
and why ...
She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of
Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here incredulity is ready to make a
stand . Many repetitions are necessary to fix in memory lines not understood ;
and why ...
Page 104
In one of Boileau ' s lines it was a question , whether he should use à rien faire ,
or à ne rien faire ; and the first was ... Nothing can be a subject only in its positive
sense , and such a sense is given it in the first line ; Nothing , thou elder brother ...
In one of Boileau ' s lines it was a question , whether he should use à rien faire ,
or à ne rien faire ; and the first was ... Nothing can be a subject only in its positive
sense , and such a sense is given it in the first line ; Nothing , thou elder brother ...
Page 173
He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing ,
makes reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure ,
is no high commendation . To expose Dryden ' s method of analysing his ...
He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing ,
makes reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure ,
is no high commendation . To expose Dryden ' s method of analysing his ...
Page 232
What he thought sufficient , he did not stop to make better ; and allowed himself to
leave many parts unfinished , in confidence that the good lines would
overbalance the bad . What he had once . written , he dismissed from his
thoughts : and , I ...
What he thought sufficient , he did not stop to make better ; and allowed himself to
leave many parts unfinished , in confidence that the good lines would
overbalance the bad . What he had once . written , he dismissed from his
thoughts : and , I ...
Page 310
A simile may be compared to lines converging at a point , and is more excellent
as the lines approach from greater distance ; an exemplificarion may be
considered as two parallel lines , which run on together without approximation ,
never far ...
A simile may be compared to lines converging at a point , and is more excellent
as the lines approach from greater distance ; an exemplificarion may be
considered as two parallel lines , which run on together without approximation ,
never far ...
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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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