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Download book The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works Volume 3

Download book The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works Volume 3

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works Volume 3. Samuel Johnson

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works Volume 3
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Author: Samuel Johnson
Number of Pages: 86 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231079256
File size: 15 Mb
File Name: The.Lives.of.the.Most.Eminent.English.Poets,.with.Critical.Observations.on.Their.Works.Volume.3.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 Excerpt: ...and without any modification, is gross and improper. To be above temptation in poverty and free from corruption among the Great, is indeed such a peculiarity as deserved notice. But to be a safe companion is a praise merely negative, arising not from possession of virtue, but the absence of vice, and that one of the most odious. As little can be added to his character, by asserting that he was lamented in his end. Everyman that dies is, at least by the writer of his epitaph, supposed to be lamented, and therefore this general lamentation does no honour to Gay. The first eight lines have no grammar; the adjectives are without any substantive, and the epithets without a subject. The thought in the last line, that Gay is buried in the bofoms of the worthy and the good, who are distinguissied only to lengthen the line, is fo dark that sew understand it; and fo harsh, when it is explained, that still sewer approve. XIL Intended for Sir Isaac Newton.. In Westminster-Abbey. Isaacus Newtonius: Quem Immortalem Tcstantur, Tempus, Naiura, Catum: Mortalem Hoc marmor fatetur. Nature, . and Nature'3 laws, lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! And all was light. Of Of this epitaph, short as it is, the faults seem not to be very sew. Why part should be Latin, and part English, it is not easy to discover. In the Latin the opposition of Immortalis and Mortalis, is a mere found, or a mere quibble; he is not immortal in any sense contrary to that in which he is mortal. In the verses the thought is obvious, and the words night and light are too nearly allied. XIII. On Edmund Duke of Buckingham, ivho died in the lyth Tear of his Age, 1735. If modest youth, with cool reflection orown'd, And every opening virtue blooming round, Could save a parent's justest pride from fate, Or...

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