The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
... diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
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... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and re- duces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and re- duces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
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... diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ...
... diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ...
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... diction , could ima- gine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if some deficiencies of language be ...
... diction , could ima- gine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if some deficiencies of language be ...
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... diction was in his own time censured as negli- gent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
... diction was in his own time censured as negli- gent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
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