The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemi- sphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet ( 2 ) , that " amendments are seldom ( 1 ) ...
... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemi- sphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet ( 2 ) , that " amendments are seldom ( 1 ) ...
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... allows , that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compo- sitions the most honourable encomiums . " ( 1 ) ( 1 ) See " An Essay on the Life , Character ...
... allows , that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compo- sitions the most honourable encomiums . " ( 1 ) ( 1 ) See " An Essay on the Life , Character ...
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... allow , that he never spared any as- perity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . " I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , “ an and his judgment keen and penetrating . He had a strong sense of the im- portance of religion ...
... allow , that he never spared any as- perity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . " I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , “ an and his judgment keen and penetrating . He had a strong sense of the im- portance of religion ...
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... allowed its due share in enhancing the value of his captivating composition . Johnson , who had done liberal justice to War- burton in his edition of Shakspeare , which was pub- lished during the life of that powerful writer , with ...
... allowed its due share in enhancing the value of his captivating composition . Johnson , who had done liberal justice to War- burton in his edition of Shakspeare , which was pub- lished during the life of that powerful writer , with ...
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... fair to understand him as superciliously persevering ? When he allows the shafts to re- main in the wounds , and will not stretch forth a lenient hand , country , should not only not have been in any 16 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... fair to understand him as superciliously persevering ? When he allows the shafts to re- main in the wounds , and will not stretch forth a lenient hand , country , should not only not have been in any 16 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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