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Pagina 144
Of the ancient poets every reader feels the mythology tedious and oppressive. Of
Hudibras, the manners, being founded on opinions, are temporary and local, and
therefore become every day less intelligible, and less striking. What Cicero ...
Of the ancient poets every reader feels the mythology tedious and oppressive. Of
Hudibras, the manners, being founded on opinions, are temporary and local, and
therefore become every day less intelligible, and less striking. What Cicero ...
Pagina 231
He generally judges of the ancients by the moderns, and not the moderns by the
ancients; he takes those passages of their own authors to be really sublime
which come the nearest to it; he often calls that a noble and a great thought which
is ...
He generally judges of the ancients by the moderns, and not the moderns by the
ancients; he takes those passages of their own authors to be really sublime
which come the nearest to it; he often calls that a noble and a great thought which
is ...
Pagina 287
He has elsewhere shewn his attention to the planetary powers ; and in the
preface to his Fables has endeavoured obliquely to justify his superstition, by
attributing the same to some of the Ancients. The latter, added to this narrative,
leaves no ...
He has elsewhere shewn his attention to the planetary powers ; and in the
preface to his Fables has endeavoured obliquely to justify his superstition, by
attributing the same to some of the Ancients. The latter, added to this narrative,
leaves no ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| gepubliceerd | 1961 |
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