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Pagina 7
Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their
language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the
diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence
of his ...
Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their
language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the
diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence
of his ...
Pagina 221
of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of
goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having " turned
many to righteousness . " Addison , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was
...
of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of
goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having " turned
many to righteousness . " Addison , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was
...
Pagina 396
... of the world so much altered , and the demand for elegance so much increased
, that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of
borrowed passages , very few can be shown which he has not embellished .
... of the world so much altered , and the demand for elegance so much increased
, that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of
borrowed passages , very few can be shown which he has not embellished .
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JOHN MILTON | 47 |
EARL OF ROCHESTER | 107 |
JOSEPH ADDISON | 197 |
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Addison afterwards allowed appears attention believe called censure character common considered continued conversation Cowley criticism death delight desire discovered Dryden easily effect elegance endeavoured English equal excellence expected expression favour formed friends gave genius give given hand honour hope human imagination Italy Johnson kind King knowledge known labour language learning less letter lines lived Lord lost manner means mentioned Milton mind nature necessary never numbers observed occasion once opinion original pass performance perhaps person play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise present probably produced published reader reason received regard remarks Savage says seems sometimes soon sufficient supposed Swift tell things thought told translation true verses virtue whole write written wrote
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Lives of the English Poets: A Selection Everyman's classics Everyman's library |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Redacteur | John Wain |
| Bijdrager | John Wain |
| Uitgever | Dent, 1975 |
| ISBN | 0460157701, 9780460157704 |
| Lengte | 470 pagina's |
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