Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 31
... admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement . While edition after edition of his book was coming forth , his son , as Mr. Croker tells us , was ashamed of it , and hated to hear it mentioned . This feeling ...
... admiration for the man to whom we owe so much instruction and amusement . While edition after edition of his book was coming forth , his son , as Mr. Croker tells us , was ashamed of it , and hated to hear it mentioned . This feeling ...
Page 39
... admirable as they are , would scarcely have done . But nothing could be more deplorable than the state even of the ablest men , who at that time depended for subsistence on their writings . Johnson , Collins , Fielding , and Thomson ...
... admirable as they are , would scarcely have done . But nothing could be more deplorable than the state even of the ablest men , who at that time depended for subsistence on their writings . Johnson , Collins , Fielding , and Thomson ...
Page 44
... admiring its amplitude and its force were now as much astonished at its strange narrowness and feeble- ness as the fisherman in the Arabian tale , when he saw the Genie , whose stature had overshadowed the whole sea - coast , and whose ...
... admiring its amplitude and its force were now as much astonished at its strange narrowness and feeble- ness as the fisherman in the Arabian tale , when he saw the Genie , whose stature had overshadowed the whole sea - coast , and whose ...
Page 46
... admirable sense and spirit , ' Let us not be found , when our master calls us , stripping the lace off our waistcoats , but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues . Alas ! sir , a man who cannot get to heaven in a green ...
... admirable sense and spirit , ' Let us not be found , when our master calls us , stripping the lace off our waistcoats , but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues . Alas ! sir , a man who cannot get to heaven in a green ...
Page 50
... admiration under the same roof , and on the same day . an Johnson decided literary questions like a lawyer , not like a legislator . He never examined founda- tions where a point was already ruled . His whole code of criticism rested on ...
... admiration under the same roof , and on the same day . an Johnson decided literary questions like a lawyer , not like a legislator . He never examined founda- tions where a point was already ruled . His whole code of criticism rested on ...
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