The Life of Samuel JohnsonJ. M. Dent, 1907 - 1172 pages |
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Page 22
... verses upon Flat- man , which , I think , by much too severe : " Nor that slow drudge in swift Pindarick strains , Flatman , who Cowley imitates with pains , And rides a jaded Muse , whipt with loose reins . " I like to recollect all ...
... verses upon Flat- man , which , I think , by much too severe : " Nor that slow drudge in swift Pindarick strains , Flatman , who Cowley imitates with pains , And rides a jaded Muse , whipt with loose reins . " I like to recollect all ...
Page 27
... verse , and yet no poetry . ' Hudibras ' has a pro- fusion of these ; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem . Spleen , ' in Dodsley's collection , on which you say he chiefly rested , is not poetry . " BOSWELL . " Does not Gray's poetry ...
... verse , and yet no poetry . ' Hudibras ' has a pro- fusion of these ; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem . Spleen , ' in Dodsley's collection , on which you say he chiefly rested , is not poetry . " BOSWELL . " Does not Gray's poetry ...
Page 34
... verses , while Catcot stood at the back of his chair , moving himself like a pendulum , and beating time with his feet , and now and then looking into Dr. Johnson's face , wondering that he was not yet convinced . We called on Mr ...
... verses , while Catcot stood at the back of his chair , moving himself like a pendulum , and beating time with his feet , and now and then looking into Dr. Johnson's face , wondering that he was not yet convinced . We called on Mr ...
Page 98
... verse quoted , is the concluding line of a sonnet of Sidney's , of which the earliest copy , I believe , is found in Harrington's translation of Ariosto , 1591 , in the notes on the eleventh book : - " And therefore , " says he , " that ...
... verse quoted , is the concluding line of a sonnet of Sidney's , of which the earliest copy , I believe , is found in Harrington's translation of Ariosto , 1591 , in the notes on the eleventh book : - " And therefore , " says he , " that ...
Page 112
... verses , nothing that strikes one , nothing better than what you generally find in magazines ; and that the highest praise they deserved was , that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends . He said the ...
... verses , nothing that strikes one , nothing better than what you generally find in magazines ; and that the highest praise they deserved was , that they were very well for a gentleman to hand about among his friends . He said the ...
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