Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, 第 3 巻1854 |
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... father's friend , with whom he was , when they conversed together , so much pleased that he detained him two years in his house . Here he became known to King William , who sometimes visited. 2 LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS .
... father's friend , with whom he was , when they conversed together , so much pleased that he detained him two years in his house . Here he became known to King William , who sometimes visited. 2 LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS .
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... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on account of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not forbear doing him justice as a prodigy in both kinds . He had signalised himself ...
... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on account of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not forbear doing him justice as a prodigy in both kinds . He had signalised himself ...
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... pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had , indeed , trusted entirely to his merit , had insured no band of applauders , ncr used any artifice to force ...
... pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had , indeed , trusted entirely to his merit , had insured no band of applauders , ncr used any artifice to force ...
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... pleased with the contradiction of a shop- man , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham ...
... pleased with the contradiction of a shop- man , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham ...
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... pleased the president , that he told him his former suspicions , and promised to favour him . Among his contemporaries in the college were Addison and Sache- verell , men who were in those times friends , and who both adopted Yalden to ...
... pleased the president , that he told him his former suspicions , and promised to favour him . Among his contemporaries in the college were Addison and Sache- verell , men who were in those times friends , and who both adopted Yalden to ...
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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.