The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr. John- son wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr. John- son wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
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... , and had been ringleader in a barring - out ( see Lives of the Poets , " Addison " ) . Garrick entered the school two years after Johnson left it . brother sold the estate . Canon of Windsor . " 1 . C HIS SCHOOL-DAYS ...
... , and had been ringleader in a barring - out ( see Lives of the Poets , " Addison " ) . Garrick entered the school two years after Johnson left it . brother sold the estate . Canon of Windsor . " 1 . C HIS SCHOOL-DAYS ...
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... Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many years after- ward . B. of his poetical genius , both in his school exercises HIS SCHOOL-DAYS ...
... Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many years after- ward . B. of his poetical genius , both in his school exercises HIS SCHOOL-DAYS ...
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... Poems , collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731 . In that Miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex ...
... Poems , collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731 . In that Miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex ...
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... poem to an end ; that he read Shakespeare at a period so early , Johnson also under the influence of that easy logic , Stet pro ratione voluntas . B. 1 He told Windham that he had never read the Odyssey through . Murphy ( Essay on Dr ...
... poem to an end ; that he read Shakespeare at a period so early , Johnson also under the influence of that easy logic , Stet pro ratione voluntas . B. 1 He told Windham that he had never read the Odyssey through . Murphy ( Essay on Dr ...
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