The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poetsW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 |
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... remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed before . The former edition I have not seen . This was tran- scribed for the press from his own manuscript . As this undertaking was occasional and unforeseen , I must be supposed to have ...
... remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed before . The former edition I have not seen . This was tran- scribed for the press from his own manuscript . As this undertaking was occasional and unforeseen , I must be supposed to have ...
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... remarks to a wide extent , by allusions to the opinions of different authors on the Lives , and by critiques on the separate memoirs themselves ; but we will not longer oc- cupy our readers , since the literary history of the Lives has ...
... remarks to a wide extent , by allusions to the opinions of different authors on the Lives , and by critiques on the separate memoirs themselves ; but we will not longer oc- cupy our readers , since the literary history of the Lives has ...
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... remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the com- mittee of secrecy , no treaty ever was made without pri- vate interviews and preliminary discussions . My business is not the history of the peace , but the life of Prior . The ...
... remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the com- mittee of secrecy , no treaty ever was made without pri- vate interviews and preliminary discussions . My business is not the history of the peace , but the life of Prior . The ...
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... remark upon it , may afford a specimen : Sir Samps . " Sampson's a very good name ; for your Sampsons were strong dogs from the beginning . " Angel . " Have a care - If you remember , the strongest Sampson of your name pull'd an old ...
... remark upon it , may afford a specimen : Sir Samps . " Sampson's a very good name ; for your Sampsons were strong dogs from the beginning . " Angel . " Have a care - If you remember , the strongest Sampson of your name pull'd an old ...
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... remarks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or pas- sion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is ...
... remarks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or pas- sion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is ...
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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.