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Pagina xviii
... poets , — Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists , Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has distanced all his competitors so de- cidedly , that it is ...
... poets , — Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists , Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has distanced all his competitors so de- cidedly , that it is ...
Pagina 14
... , Utile proposuit nobis exemplar Ulyssen . ( 1 ) ( 1 ) [ " To show what pious wisdom's power can do , The poet sets Ulysses in our view . " - FRANCIS . ] Should there be any cold - blooded and morose mortals 14 ADVERTISEMENT.
... , Utile proposuit nobis exemplar Ulyssen . ( 1 ) ( 1 ) [ " To show what pious wisdom's power can do , The poet sets Ulysses in our view . " - FRANCIS . ] Should there be any cold - blooded and morose mortals 14 ADVERTISEMENT.
Pagina 36
... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
Pagina 40
... poet . Hague was succeeded by Green ( 1 ) , ( 1 ) [ Dr. John Green was born in 1706 , and died , Bishop of Lincoln , in 1779. He was one of the writers of the celebrated " Athenian Letters , " published by the Earl of Hardwicke in 1798 ...
... poet . Hague was succeeded by Green ( 1 ) , ( 1 ) [ Dr. John Green was born in 1706 , and died , Bishop of Lincoln , in 1779. He was one of the writers of the celebrated " Athenian Letters , " published by the Earl of Hardwicke in 1798 ...
Pagina 41
... poet was a branch . His brother sold the estate . There was also Lowe , afterwards canon of Windsor . ” ( 1 ) Indeed , Johnson was very sensible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter . Mr. Langton one day asked him , how he had acquired so ...
... poet was a branch . His brother sold the estate . There was also Lowe , afterwards canon of Windsor . ” ( 1 ) Indeed , Johnson was very sensible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter . Mr. Langton one day asked him , how he had acquired so ...
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