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Pagina 3
The pietures of Le Brun are not only in themselves sufficiently ostentatious , but
were explained by inscriptions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it
necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with
the ...
The pietures of Le Brun are not only in themselves sufficiently ostentatious , but
were explained by inscriptions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it
necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with
the ...
Pagina 15
He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it
to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to
sublimity : he perceived in it many excellences , and did not discover that it
wanted ...
He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it
to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to
sublimity : he perceived in it many excellences , and did not discover that it
wanted ...
Pagina 16
Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or
contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he
should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years ...
Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or
contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he
should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years ...
Pagina 17
... he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely
selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . ... lines into his “ Solomon ; " but
perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into
heroic poetry .
... he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely
selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . ... lines into his “ Solomon ; " but
perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into
heroic poetry .
Pagina 20
Boileau , who desired to be thought a rigorous and steady moralist , having told a
petty lie to Lewis the Fourteenth , continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking
himself obliged in honour , says his ad . mirer , to maintain what , when he said ...
Boileau , who desired to be thought a rigorous and steady moralist , having told a
petty lie to Lewis the Fourteenth , continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking
himself obliged in honour , says his ad . mirer , to maintain what , when he said ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2 Volume 419 van Collection of British and American authors Collection of British authors ; no. 418-419 Volume 418 van Collection of British authors The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Uitgever | B. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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