The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John RuskinW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 - 536 עמודים |
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עמוד vii
... JOHNSON . Detached thoughts on books and read- ing ,. 316 · Retirement , 227 The superannuated man , 319 • Life ... Dr Johnson - Boswell - Burke - Newton -Milton , 286 THOMAS DE QUINCEY . CHARLES LAMB . The vision of sudden death ...
... JOHNSON . Detached thoughts on books and read- ing ,. 316 · Retirement , 227 The superannuated man , 319 • Life ... Dr Johnson - Boswell - Burke - Newton -Milton , 286 THOMAS DE QUINCEY . CHARLES LAMB . The vision of sudden death ...
עמוד 75
... Dr Johnson as " vigorous , but rugged ; it is learned , but pedantic ; it is deep , but obscure ; it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure . . • It is a tissue of many languages , a mixture of hetero- geneous ...
... Dr Johnson as " vigorous , but rugged ; it is learned , but pedantic ; it is deep , but obscure ; it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure . . • It is a tissue of many languages , a mixture of hetero- geneous ...
עמוד 114
... Dr Johnson , " wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . ' Speaking of his intellect , John- son also said , " He thinks ...
... Dr Johnson , " wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . ' Speaking of his intellect , John- son also said , " He thinks ...
עמוד 253
... Dr Johnson for striking the stone with his foot , in allusion to this author's " Theory of Matter and Spirit , " and saying , " Thus I con- fute him , sir . " Coleridge drew a parallel ( I don't know how he brought about the connec ...
... Dr Johnson for striking the stone with his foot , in allusion to this author's " Theory of Matter and Spirit , " and saying , " Thus I con- fute him , sir . " Coleridge drew a parallel ( I don't know how he brought about the connec ...
עמוד 256
... Dr Johnson ; and a much higher opinion of Burke as an orator and politician , than of Fox or Pitt . He , however , thought him very inferior in richness of style and imagery to some of our elder prose writers , particularly Jeremy ...
... Dr Johnson ; and a much higher opinion of Burke as an orator and politician , than of Fox or Pitt . He , however , thought him very inferior in richness of style and imagery to some of our elder prose writers , particularly Jeremy ...
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