The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 páginas |
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... LIVES OF THE POETS , " WITH MACAULAY'S “ LIFE OF JOHNSON . " EDITED , WITH A PREFACE , BY MATTHEW ARNOLD . London : MACMILLAN AND CO . 1881 . The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved . PAGE vii I 45 121 235 273 327 455 Da.
... LIVES OF THE POETS , " WITH MACAULAY'S “ LIFE OF JOHNSON . " EDITED , WITH A PREFACE , BY MATTHEW ARNOLD . London : MACMILLAN AND CO . 1881 . The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved . PAGE vii I 45 121 235 273 327 455 Da.
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... 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 things , have become a Bachelor of Arts : but he was at the end of his resources ...
... 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 things , have become a Bachelor of Arts : but he was at the end of his resources ...
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... translation , little noticed at the time , and long forgotten , of a Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes containing a history of modern Latin verse ...
... translation , little noticed at the time , and long forgotten , of a Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes containing a history of modern Latin verse ...
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... translator of Polybius , remark what I think is true , that Milton was the first Englishman who , after the revival of letters , wrote Latin verses with classic elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few ; Haddon and ...
... translator of Polybius , remark what I think is true , that Milton was the first Englishman who , after the revival of letters , wrote Latin verses with classic elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few ; Haddon and ...
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... translation may shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having ex- posed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former government , " We were left , " says Milton , " to ourselves : the whole national interest fell ...
... translation may shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having ex- posed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former government , " We were left , " says Milton , " to ourselves : the whole national interest fell ...
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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.
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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.
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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.