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Sida viii
... be refuted , as Boswell seeks to refute it , by bringing forward those passages in which John- son praises Milton in noble and appropriate language . With some parts of Milton's character , with his independence and viii PREFACE .
... be refuted , as Boswell seeks to refute it , by bringing forward those passages in which John- son praises Milton in noble and appropriate language . With some parts of Milton's character , with his independence and viii PREFACE .
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... praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretension . ' ( Macaulay , art . Samuel Johnson ... praises one of Gray's Odes because it is at once rational and poetical . ' He complains that another does not ...
... praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretension . ' ( Macaulay , art . Samuel Johnson ... praises one of Gray's Odes because it is at once rational and poetical . ' He complains that another does not ...
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... praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
... praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
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... praise he was very frugal ; as he set its 15 value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain preserva- tion from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed complain that his ...
... praise he was very frugal ; as he set its 15 value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain preserva- tion from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed complain that his ...
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... emendatory criticism , almost exceeding all hope of human attainment ; and having , by excessive praises , been confirmed in great confidence of 20 LIVES OF THE POETS . by being overlooked, were forgotten, and desire superinduced ...
... emendatory criticism , almost exceeding all hope of human attainment ; and having , by excessive praises , been confirmed in great confidence of 20 LIVES OF THE POETS . by being overlooked, were forgotten, and desire superinduced ...
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Sida 93 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Sida 98 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Sida 118 - He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly, but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found...
Sida 101 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Sida 138 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Sida 116 - Lombards; if to the instinct of nature and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted, and that there be nothing adverse in our climate or the fate of this age, it haply would be no rashness, from an equal diligence and inclination, to present the like offer in our own ancient stories...
Sida 14 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Sida 122 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed and become safely habitable again, he returned thither.
Sida 97 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compar'd.
Sida 58 - Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them with pleasure.