 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 страници
...on either side. " The abyss of ah un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy. " These, like [many other harlots] the harlots of other men, had his love though not his approbation. 1 It seems to me, that there are many pathetic passages in Johnson's work* both prose and verse. —... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 страници
..."but I knew," savs he, " that they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them." There is surely amuel lees generous and splendid kind. He makes, like almost all other poets, very frequent use of mythology,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 страници
..."but I knew," says he, " that they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them." There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well...distinction. He descends to display his knowledge with pedantic ostentation ; as when, in translating' Virgil, he says, tack to the larboard — and teer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 страници
...I knew,-" says he, " that they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them." There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well...generous and splendid kind. He makes, like almost ail other poets, very frequent use of mythology, and sometimes connects religion and fable too closely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 страници
...in on either side. "The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy. "These, like [many other harlots,] the harlots of other men, had his love though not his approbation. " He [sometimes displays] descends to display his knowledge with pedantic ostentation. "French words which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 страници
...knew," says he, " that they were bad enough to please, even when I writ them." 1B1 There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well...distinction. He descends to display his knowledge with pedantic ostentation ; as when, in translating Virgil, he says " tack to the larboard "—and " veer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 страници
...but I knew," says he, " that they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them." There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well...distinction. .. He descends to display his knowledge with pedantic ostentation ; as when, in translating Virgil, he says, " tack to the larboard," and "veer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 страници
...I knew,"; says he, " that they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them." There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well...men, had his love, though not his approbation. He descends to display his knowledge* with pedantic ostentation; as when, in translating Virgil,. he says,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 страници
...either side. "The abyss of an un -ideal [emptiness] vacancy. " These, like [many other harlots,] tlte harlots of other men, had his love though not his approbation. " He [sometimes displays] descends to display his knowledge with pedantic ostentation. "French words which... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 страници
...but I knew," says he, "that they were bad enongh to please, even when I wrote them." There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well...these, like the harlots of other men, had his love, thongh not his approbation. He had sometimes faults of a less generous and splendid kind. He makes,... | |
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I knew, says he, that they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them. There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well as his audience ; and that these, like the harlots of other men, had his love, though not his approbation.... 
