De Quincey's Writings: The note book of an English opium-eater. 1855Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1855 |
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Страница 109 - Johnson's leave) is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings, — being substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication-table, of commonplaces the 1 Bernard Mandeville, philosophical writer, 1670-1733. — M. most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps, — since nothing is said worth answering, it is sufficient to answer nothing.
Страница 95 - Urn-burial," or to Jeremy Taylor's inaugural sections of his "Holy Living and Dying," do you know what would have happened? Are you aware what sort of ridiculous figure your poor bald Jonathan would have cut? About the same that would be cut by a forlorn scullion from a greasy eating-house at Rotterdam, if suddenly called away in vision to act as seneschal to the festival of Belshazzar the king, before a thousand of his lords...