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... language " which he drove " a little more beyond common apprehension , by making ' gales ' to be redolent of joy and youth " ( III : 435 ) . " Idalia's velvet- green , " in The Progress of Poesy , " has something of cant . An epithet or ...
... language " which he drove " a little more beyond common apprehension , by making ' gales ' to be redolent of joy and youth " ( III : 435 ) . " Idalia's velvet- green , " in The Progress of Poesy , " has something of cant . An epithet or ...
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... language abounding with lively metaphor " ( 1 : 104 ) ; he employed the same language in the Life , writing that he found in it " shrewd and lively sense , expressed indeed in a style somewhat quaint " ( II : 193–94 ) . Johnson was ...
... language abounding with lively metaphor " ( 1 : 104 ) ; he employed the same language in the Life , writing that he found in it " shrewd and lively sense , expressed indeed in a style somewhat quaint " ( II : 193–94 ) . Johnson was ...
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... Language , for Drama Sentiment , Language , Power over the heart , & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet , is the tomb scene in the Mourning Bride . " Johnson told Mrs. Thrale how he used " to teize Garrick by commendations of the ...
... Language , for Drama Sentiment , Language , Power over the heart , & every Requisite for Theatre or Closet , is the tomb scene in the Mourning Bride . " Johnson told Mrs. Thrale how he used " to teize Garrick by commendations of the ...
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Paging Through Boswells Life of Johnson | 3 |
Notes on Johnsons Hebridean Jaunt | 15 |
Johnsons Early Translations from Virgil Homer and Horace | 23 |
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