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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 532 pages
...liberality ; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master. Pope was not content to satisfy, he desired to excel;...reader, and expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his' mind ; for, when he...was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel, j and, therefore, always endeavoured to do his best : he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed crested helmet shook , The brittle steel, unfaithful to his hand, Broke short : the fr fini her solicitude. Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel . and therefore always endeavoured...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed er throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; ier gloomy presence saddens all the scene, showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...
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Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...
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Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...he says of Pope — 'He laboured his works, first to gam reputation, and afterwards to keep it' He mages. This precept may be justly extended to the series of life : nothing is ended with honour, hia read:rs; and expecting no indulgence from others, be showed none himself. He examined Une* and...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation ...

John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind; for, when he...no pecuniary interest he had no further solicitude. Poi'E professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented,...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed hes ; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own....share ; tolh must alike from Heaven derive their light showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed him. I have been told that the couplet by which he...sleeps, and hardly flows The freezing Tanais through a. showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...he says of Pope — 'He laboured his works, first to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it." He was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel,...not court the candour, but dared the judgment of his readers; and expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none himself. He examined lines and words...
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