Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 - English poetry |
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... language and force of sentiment . Jonathan Swift was , according to an account said to be written by himself , the son of Jonathan Swift , an attorney , and was born at Dublin on St. Andrew's day , 1667 : according to his own report ...
... language and force of sentiment . Jonathan Swift was , according to an account said to be written by himself , the son of Jonathan Swift , an attorney , and was born at Dublin on St. Andrew's day , 1667 : according to his own report ...
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... language , and without any accurate enquiry into the history of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all experience , he thinks attainable , he proposes to secure by in- stituting an academy ; the decrees of ...
... language , and without any accurate enquiry into the history of other tongues . The certainty and stability which , contrary to all experience , he thinks attainable , he proposes to secure by in- stituting an academy ; the decrees of ...
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... language ; and of her wit , so loudly vaunted , the smart sayings which Swift himself has collected afford no splendid specimen . ' 2 The reader of Swift's " Letter to a Lady on her Mar- riage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his ...
... language ; and of her wit , so loudly vaunted , the smart sayings which Swift himself has collected afford no splendid specimen . ' 2 The reader of Swift's " Letter to a Lady on her Mar- riage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his ...
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... language , which rather trickles than flows . His delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor , as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied ...
... language , which rather trickles than flows . His delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor , as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied ...
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... language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he ap- parently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed im- periousness , in which he was ironical only to the resentful , and to the submissive sufficiently ...
... language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he ap- parently flattered his own arrogance by an assumed im- periousness , in which he was ironical only to the resentful , and to the submissive sufficiently ...
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