Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, 第 3 巻1854 |
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... sent at the age of six to the school of Kilkenny ; and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the University of Dublin . In his academical studies he was either not diligent or not happy . It must disappoint every reader's ...
... sent at the age of six to the school of Kilkenny ; and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the University of Dublin . In his academical studies he was either not diligent or not happy . It must disappoint every reader's ...
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... sent Swift for the same purpose to the king . Swift , who probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of displaying them , made totally ineffectual by the ...
... sent Swift for the same purpose to the king . Swift , who probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of displaying them , made totally ineffectual by the ...
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... sent , or supposed to be sent , by letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to ...
... sent , or supposed to be sent , by letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to ...
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... sent from the country to parliament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hundred , and met to animate the zeal and raise the expectations of each other . They thought , with great reason , that the ministers ...
... sent from the country to parliament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hundred , and met to animate the zeal and raise the expectations of each other . They thought , with great reason , that the ministers ...
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... sent out the jury nine times , till by clamour and menaces they were frighted into a special verdict , now presented the " Drapier , " but could not prevail on the grand jury to find the bill . Lord Carteret and the privy council ...
... sent out the jury nine times , till by clamour and menaces they were frighted into a special verdict , now presented the " Drapier , " but could not prevail on the grand jury to find the bill . Lord Carteret and the privy council ...
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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.