Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Barnes & Noble, 1966 - 488 pages |
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... Paradise Lost ] are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were sup- plied by incessant study and un- limited curiosity . . . . Milton had considered creation in its ...
... Paradise Lost ] are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active , to which materials were sup- plied by incessant study and un- limited curiosity . . . . Milton had considered creation in its ...
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... Paradise Lost , he would have only ranked among the minor poets : he was a Phidias that could cut a Colossus out of a rock , but could not cut heads out of cherry stones 5 . 6 Boswell brought to my mind the whole of a very mirthful ...
... Paradise Lost , he would have only ranked among the minor poets : he was a Phidias that could cut a Colossus out of a rock , but could not cut heads out of cherry stones 5 . 6 Boswell brought to my mind the whole of a very mirthful ...
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... lost All her original brightness . ' Paradise Lost , i . 591 . • Ib . ii . 561 . 5 ' I wonder , Sir , how a gentleman of your piety can introduce this sub- ject in a mixed company . ' Life , ii . 254 . Par nobile fratrum . ' HORACE , 2 ...
... lost All her original brightness . ' Paradise Lost , i . 591 . • Ib . ii . 561 . 5 ' I wonder , Sir , how a gentleman of your piety can introduce this sub- ject in a mixed company . ' Life , ii . 254 . Par nobile fratrum . ' HORACE , 2 ...
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Apophthegms c from Hawkinss Edition of Johnsons Works | 21 |
Anecdotes from the Rev Dr Thomas Campbells Diary of a Visit | 39 |
Anecdotes from Penningtons Memoirs of Mrs Carter | 58 |
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