Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, 第 3 巻1854 |
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... nature , became yet more slow by irresolution ; and was content to hear that dilatoriness lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as politic . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ; and as they were not to be ...
... nature , became yet more slow by irresolution ; and was content to hear that dilatoriness lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as politic . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ; and as they were not to be ...
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... natural right ; and to like best what he makes himself , is a natural passion . But to excite this passion , and enforce this right , appeared so criminal to those who had an interest in the English trade , that the printer was ...
... natural right ; and to like best what he makes himself , is a natural passion . But to excite this passion , and enforce this right , appeared so criminal to those who had an interest in the English trade , that the printer was ...
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... nature were violated to retain her , curiosity will inquire ; but how shall it be gratified ? Swift was a lover ; his testimony may be suspected . Delany and the Irish saw with Swift's eyes , and therefore add little confirmation . That ...
... nature were violated to retain her , curiosity will inquire ; but how shall it be gratified ? Swift was a lover ; his testimony may be suspected . Delany and the Irish saw with Swift's eyes , and therefore add little confirmation . That ...
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... nature . ' Tis so odd , that there's no describing it but by facts . I'll tell you one that first comes into my head . One evening , Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted . On our coming in , Heyday ...
... nature . ' Tis so odd , that there's no describing it but by facts . I'll tell you one that first comes into my head . One evening , Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted . On our coming in , Heyday ...
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... natural , became ridiculous because they were useless . But querulous- ness was now grown habitual , and he cried out when he probably had ceased to feel . His reiterated wailings persuaded Bolingbroke that he was really willing to quit ...
... natural , became ridiculous because they were useless . But querulous- ness was now grown habitual , and he cried out when he probably had ceased to feel . His reiterated wailings persuaded Bolingbroke that he was really willing to quit ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards Allan Ramsay appears blank verse Bolingbroke called Cato censure character College composition criticism death delight diction died diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad edition Edward Young elegant endeavoured English English poetry epitaph Essay excellence father favour Fenton friends friendship genius Homer honour Iliad imitation Ireland kind King known labour lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers opinion Oxford pastorals PAUL WHITEHEAD perhaps Philips Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed produced published racter reader reason received reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sent sometimes soon stanza Steele supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tell thing Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Westminster Abbey Whig write written wrote Young
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182 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.
148 ページ - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust
248 ページ - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
225 ページ - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
22 ページ - Whatever he did, he seemed willing to do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule ; he, therefore, who indulges peculiar habits, is worse than others, if he be not better.
219 ページ - The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every other writer in poetical prudence : he wrote in such a. manner as might expose him to few hazards.
249 ページ - Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light;" but others, and among them Dr.
215 ページ - ... a letter is addressed to a single mind, of which the prejudices and partialities are known, and must therefore please, if not by favouring them, by forbearing to oppose them.
93 ページ - Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, "Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading 'Don Quixote
22 ページ - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his letters^ an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another.