Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1977 - 461 pagina's |
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Pagina 41
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
Pagina 97
... tion from the common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exer- tion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his ...
... tion from the common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exer- tion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his ...
Pagina 324
... tion , or exasperated revenge . He is therefore , with all his variety of excellence , not often pathetick ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural , that he did not esteem them in others . Simplicity ...
... tion , or exasperated revenge . He is therefore , with all his variety of excellence , not often pathetick ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural , that he did not esteem them in others . Simplicity ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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