Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, 第 3 巻1854 |
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... opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily disowned . For some time after , Swift was probably employed in solitary study , gaining the qualifications requisite ...
... opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily disowned . For some time after , Swift was probably employed in solitary study , gaining the qualifications requisite ...
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... opinion with the October Club ; but it was not in his power to quicken the tardiness of Harley , whom he stimulated as much as he could , but with little effect . He that knows not whither to go , is in no haste to move . Harley , who ...
... opinion with the October Club ; but it was not in his power to quicken the tardiness of Harley , whom he stimulated as much as he could , but with little effect . He that knows not whither to go , is in no haste to move . Harley , who ...
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... opinion , that all was lost . This denunciation was contradicted by Oxford ; but Bolingbroke whispered that he was right . Before this violent dissension had shattered the ministry , Swift had published in the beginning of the year ...
... opinion , that all was lost . This denunciation was contradicted by Oxford ; but Bolingbroke whispered that he was right . Before this violent dissension had shattered the ministry , Swift had published in the beginning of the year ...
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... opinion of female excellence ought im- plicitly to be admitted ; for if his general thoughts on women were such as he exhibits , a very little sense in a lady would enrapture , and a very little virtue would astonish him . Stella's ...
... opinion of female excellence ought im- plicitly to be admitted ; for if his general thoughts on women were such as he exhibits , a very little sense in a lady would enrapture , and a very little virtue would astonish him . Stella's ...
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... opinion , who could not admire " Verses as smooth and soft as cream , In which there was neither depth nor stream . " And therefore , though his want of complaisance for some men's over- bearing vanity made him enemies , yet the better ...
... opinion , who could not admire " Verses as smooth and soft as cream , In which there was neither depth nor stream . " And therefore , though his want of complaisance for some men's over- bearing vanity made him enemies , yet the better ...
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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.