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Pagina 17
... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil
agency not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so
judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce
excellence .
... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil
agency not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so
judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce
excellence .
Pagina 30
The general character of his Miscellanies is , that they shew little wit and little
virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a
national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the
English ...
The general character of his Miscellanies is , that they shew little wit and little
virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a
national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the
English ...
Pagina 32
Blackmore , therefore , was made a poet not by necessity but inclination , and
wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a
nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to
him ...
Blackmore , therefore , was made a poet not by necessity but inclination , and
wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a
nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to
him ...
Pagina 33
That he had been of considerable use , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him
to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own
importance : those whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others are often ...
That he had been of considerable use , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him
to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own
importance : those whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others are often ...
Pagina 34
... and degraded himself by conferring that authority over the national taste which
he takes from the poets upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit
and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside ...
... and degraded himself by conferring that authority over the national taste which
he takes from the poets upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit
and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside ...
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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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