Johnson & Goldsmith & Their PoetryAMS Press, 1971 - 175 pages |
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Page 30
... things the hungry Greek exactly knows , And bid him go to heaven , to heaven he goes . This passage is thus utilized by Johnson for his own round abuse of the French ; and , as will be seen , it loses nothing of its strength in the ...
... things the hungry Greek exactly knows , And bid him go to heaven , to heaven he goes . This passage is thus utilized by Johnson for his own round abuse of the French ; and , as will be seen , it loses nothing of its strength in the ...
Page 137
... things was evidence only of a strange perversity of taste . Goldsmith , on the other hand , despite the hampering influences of his Classical prejudices , felt a certain instinctive sympathy with this kind of poetry . While the ...
... things was evidence only of a strange perversity of taste . Goldsmith , on the other hand , despite the hampering influences of his Classical prejudices , felt a certain instinctive sympathy with this kind of poetry . While the ...
Page 156
... things , for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman , too proud for a wit , For a patriot too cool , for a drudge disobedient , And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient . 1 Thomas Townshend , Whig M.P. for Whitchurch . 2 ...
... things , for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman , too proud for a wit , For a patriot too cool , for a drudge disobedient , And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient . 1 Thomas Townshend , Whig M.P. for Whitchurch . 2 ...
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