The works of Samuel Johnson, 第 8 巻F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... remarked of the studious and speculative , that they are proud of trifles , and that their amusements seem frivolous and childish ; whe- ther it be that men , conscious of great reputation , think themselves above the reach of censure ...
... remarked of the studious and speculative , that they are proud of trifles , and that their amusements seem frivolous and childish ; whe- ther it be that men , conscious of great reputation , think themselves above the reach of censure ...
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... remarked , that he began a little to relax his dignity when he wrote a distich for his Highness's dog . " 66 His admiration of the Great seems to have in- creased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and statesmen to inscribe ...
... remarked , that he began a little to relax his dignity when he wrote a distich for his Highness's dog . " 66 His admiration of the Great seems to have in- creased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and statesmen to inscribe ...
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... remarked that both end with the same fault : the comparison of each is literal on one side , and metaphorical on the other . Poets do not always express their own thoughts ; Pope , with all this labour in the praise of Musick , was ...
... remarked that both end with the same fault : the comparison of each is literal on one side , and metaphorical on the other . Poets do not always express their own thoughts ; Pope , with all this labour in the praise of Musick , was ...
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... remarked that the preternatural agents are very happily adapted to the purposes of the poem . The Heathen deities can no longer gain attention : we should have turned away from a contest between Venus and Diana . The employment of ...
... remarked that the preternatural agents are very happily adapted to the purposes of the poem . The Heathen deities can no longer gain attention : we should have turned away from a contest between Venus and Diana . The employment of ...
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... remarked by Dennis likewise , that the machi- nery is superfluous ; that , by all the bustle of preter- natural operation , the main event is neither hastened nor retarded . To this charge an efficacious answer is not easily made . The ...
... remarked by Dennis likewise , that the machi- nery is superfluous ; that , by all the bustle of preter- natural operation , the main event is neither hastened nor retarded . To this charge an efficacious answer is not easily made . The ...
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194 ページ - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in ' The Rape of the Lock;' and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the
87 ページ - Thetis' son he bends his care, And plunge the Greeks in all the woes of war. Then bids an empty phantom rise to sight, And thus commands the vision of the night : • . directs Fly hence, delusive dream, and, light as air, To Agamemnon's royal tent repair ; Bid him in arms draw forth th' embattled train, March all his legions to the dusty plain.
243 ページ - Here he had .the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to soothe his mind and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
376 ページ - His supplication to father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames/ has no better means of knowing than himself.
133 ページ - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
371 ページ - He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil : had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy ; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening.
213 ページ - Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
238 ページ - The great defect of the Seasons is want of method ; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images and thoughts both their lustre and their shade; such as invests them with splendour, through...
208 ページ - Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense: No conquest she, but o'er herself, desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinced that Virtue only is our own. So unaffected, so composed a mind, So firm, yet so'ft, so strong, yet so refined, Heaven, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd ; The saint sustained it, but the woman dy'd.