Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Nide 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... delighted to involve it.1 Whatever was his birth , his education was Irish . He was sent at the age of six to the school at Kilkenny , and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the Univer- sity of Dublin . In his academical ...
... delighted to involve it.1 Whatever was his birth , his education was Irish . He was sent at the age of six to the school at Kilkenny , and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the Univer- sity of Dublin . In his academical ...
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... delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor , as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied purity ; and though perhaps all his strictures ...
... delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor , as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied purity ; and though perhaps all his strictures ...
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... delighted in seeming worse than he was . He went in London to early prayers , lest he should be seen at church ; he read prayers to his servants every morning with such dexterous secrecy , that Dr. Delany was six months in his house ...
... delighted in seeming worse than he was . He went in London to early prayers , lest he should be seen at church ; he read prayers to his servants every morning with such dexterous secrecy , that Dr. Delany was six months in his house ...
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... delighted with low flattery . On all common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of ...
... delighted with low flattery . On all common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of ...
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... delight in revolving ideas , from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even ... delightful in many instances , and salutary , even where it is most offen- sive ; when you consider his strict truth ...
... delight in revolving ideas , from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even ... delightful in many instances , and salutary , even where it is most offen- sive ; when you consider his strict truth ...
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Sivu 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Sivu 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Sivu 18 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Sivu 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Sivu 23 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Soots. 2 vols. 5*. each. Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses. With Portraits. 5*.
Sivu 20 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Sivu 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Sivu 5 - CASTLE (E.) Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By Egerton Castle, MA, FSA With a Complete Bibliography. Illustrated with 140 Reproductions of Old Engravings and 6 Plates of Swords, showing 114 Examples. 6s.
Sivu 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Sivu 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.