The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 páginas |
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... Latin and Greek . But it is still more interesting to lay out the ideal line of study to be followed by all who are concerned with that body of literature which exists in English , because this class is so much more numerous amongst us ...
... Latin and Greek . But it is still more interesting to lay out the ideal line of study to be followed by all who are concerned with that body of literature which exists in English , because this class is so much more numerous amongst us ...
Página xvii
... Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet discovered in their own tongue . But nations such as England and France , called to a great historic life , and ...
... Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet discovered in their own tongue . But nations such as England and France , called to a great historic life , and ...
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... Latin literature . That Augustan delicacy of taste , which is the boast of the great public schools of England , he never possessed . But he was early familiar with some classical writers , who were quite unknown to the best scholars in ...
... Latin literature . That Augustan delicacy of taste , which is the boast of the great public schools of England , he never possessed . But he was early familiar with some classical writers , who were quite unknown to the best scholars in ...
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... Latin com- positions show that he had paid at least as much attention to modern copies from the antique as to the original models . While he was thus irregularly educating himself , his family was sinking into hopeless poverty . Old ...
... Latin com- positions show that he had paid at least as much attention to modern copies from the antique as to the original models . While he was thus irregularly educating himself , his family was sinking into hopeless poverty . Old ...
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... Latin verse . The style and rhythm , indeed , were not exactly Virgilian ; but the translation found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . The time drew near at which Johnson would , in the ordinary course of ...
... Latin verse . The style and rhythm , indeed , were not exactly Virgilian ; but the translation found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . The time drew near at which Johnson would , in the ordinary course of ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 417 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 389 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 97 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries ; but what image of tenderness...
Página 19 - THE SEVEN KINGS OF ROME. An Easy Narrative, abridged from the First Book of Livy by the omission of Difficult Passages; being a First Latin Reading Book, with Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary.
Página 200 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 25 - Prelector of St. John's College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS. For the Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools.
Página 306 - To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled '? because she longs to launch ? an act which was never hindered by a bridle : and whither will she launch ? into a nobler strain.
Página 42 - SOUND : a Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of Sound, for the Use of Students of every age.
Página 24 - HEMMING— AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, for the Use of Colleges and Schools. By GW HEMMING, MA, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Second Edition, with Corrections and Additions. 8vo.
Página 417 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.