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That is, over our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This
image, which is perhaps, the most striking that poetry can produce, has been
adopted by Dryden in his " Conquest of Mexico." All things are hush'd as nature's
self ...
That is, over our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This
image, which is perhaps, the most striking that poetry can produce, has been
adopted by Dryden in his " Conquest of Mexico." All things are hush'd as nature's
self ...
Página 143
In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick ; but in
comedy he seems to repose, or to luxuriate, as in a mode of thinking congenial to
his nature. In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his
comedy ...
In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick ; but in
comedy he seems to repose, or to luxuriate, as in a mode of thinking congenial to
his nature. In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his
comedy ...
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The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration may
improve them, and so carelessly pursued, that he seems not always fully to
comprehend his own design. He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting,
which the ...
The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration may
improve them, and so carelessly pursued, that he seems not always fully to
comprehend his own design. He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting,
which the ...
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Shakespeare knew what the queen, if the story he true, seems not to have known
, that by any real passion of tenderness, the selfish craft, the careless jollity, and
the lazy luxury of Falstaff must have suffered so much abatement, that little of his
...
Shakespeare knew what the queen, if the story he true, seems not to have known
, that by any real passion of tenderness, the selfish craft, the careless jollity, and
the lazy luxury of Falstaff must have suffered so much abatement, that little of his
...
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home, who being committed together, seem to me both to suffer a diminution,
whilst justice is done to neither. But at the same time 1 highly approve your
nation's piety in bringing into your schools sacred instead of profane poesy, and
heartily ...
home, who being committed together, seem to me both to suffer a diminution,
whilst justice is done to neither. But at the same time 1 highly approve your
nation's piety in bringing into your schools sacred instead of profane poesy, and
heartily ...
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| Título | The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autores | Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Arthur Murphy |
| Editor | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Procedencia del original | University of Minnesota |
| Digitalizado | 4 Feb 2010 |
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