The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poetsW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 |
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... elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellencies , and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail , the power of ...
... elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellencies , and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail , the power of ...
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... elegance had raised to reputation . It may be , therefore , reasonably supposed that his manners were polite , and his conversa- tion pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the ...
... elegance had raised to reputation . It may be , therefore , reasonably supposed that his manners were polite , and his conversa- tion pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the ...
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... elegance of diction . This tissue of poetry , from which he seems to have hoped a lasting name , is totally neglected , and known only as it is appended to his plays . While comedy , or while tragedy , is regarded , his plays are likely ...
... elegance of diction . This tissue of poetry , from which he seems to have hoped a lasting name , is totally neglected , and known only as it is appended to his plays . While comedy , or while tragedy , is regarded , his plays are likely ...
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... elegance , may , perhaps , be added ; but , of a large work , the general character must always remain ; the original constitution can be very little helped by local remedies ; inherent and radical dulness will never be much invigorated ...
... elegance , may , perhaps , be added ; but , of a large work , the general character must always remain ; the original constitution can be very little helped by local remedies ; inherent and radical dulness will never be much invigorated ...
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... Creation has , however , the appearance of more circumspection ; it wants neither harmony of num- bers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction : it has either been written with great care , or , what 50 BLACKMORE .
... Creation has , however , the appearance of more circumspection ; it wants neither harmony of num- bers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction : it has either been written with great care , or , what 50 BLACKMORE .
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346 ページ - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...
295 ページ - As fruits ungrateful to the planter's care, On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear, The surest virtues thus from passions shoot. Wild nature's vigour working at the root. What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen, from obstinacy, hate, or fear ! See anger zeal and fortitude supply ; E'en avarice prudence, sloth philosophy ; Lust, through some certain strainers well refin'd, Is gentle love, and charms all womankind; Envy, to which th...
262 ページ - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
257 ページ - Iliad." It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning.
321 ページ - These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied diligence; he had recourse to every source of intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained.
378 ページ - Liberty," when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon desisted. I have never tried again, and therefore will not hazard either praise or censure. The highest praise which he has received ought not to be suppressed : it is said by Lord Lyttelton, in the Prologue to his posthumous play, that his works contained No line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
160 ページ - He lodged as much by accident as he dined, and passed the night sometimes in mean houses which are set open at night to any casual wanderers, sometimes in cellars, among the riot and filth of the meanest and most profligate of the rabble...
325 ページ - Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller.
68 ページ - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us ; and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice : but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve, who, after reading it over, said, ' It would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly...
291 ページ - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified4. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else.