The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a bank for wit . In this poem be justly censured Dryden's ...
... discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a bank for wit . In this poem be justly censured Dryden's ...
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... discovered by a perpetual attempt to de- grade physick from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an ...
... discovered by a perpetual attempt to de- grade physick from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an ...
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... discovered to have disturbed his quiet , or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they neither provoked him to petulance , nor depressed him to complaint . While the distributors ...
... discovered to have disturbed his quiet , or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they neither provoked him to petulance , nor depressed him to complaint . While the distributors ...
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... discovering the taste of the publick . He was quite right in this , as usual ; the good - nature of the au- dience appeared stronger and stronger every act , and ended in a clamour of applause . " Its reception is thus recorded in the ...
... discovering the taste of the publick . He was quite right in this , as usual ; the good - nature of the au- dience appeared stronger and stronger every act , and ended in a clamour of applause . " Its reception is thus recorded in the ...
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... discovered a resolution of disowning him ; and , in a very short time , removed him from her sight , by committing him to the care of a poor woman , whom she directed to educate him as her own , and enjoined never to inform him of his ...
... discovered a resolution of disowning him ; and , in a very short time , removed him from her sight , by committing him to the care of a poor woman , whom she directed to educate him as her own , and enjoined never to inform him of his ...
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266 ページ - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
201 ページ - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
240 ページ - He professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality ; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment were not allotted in a less proportion to Dryden than to Pope.
267 ページ - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes.
281 ページ - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation.
361 ページ - My process has now brought me to the wonderful Wonder of Wonders, the two sister odes, by which, though either vulgar ignorance or common sense at first universally rejected them, many have been since persuaded to think themselves delighted. I am one of those that are willing to be pleased, and therefore would gladly find the meaning of the first stanza of The Progress of Poetry.
301 ページ - Martin, a lieutenant-colonel, left him about two thousand pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas •were then repaid, and the translation neglected. But man is not born for happiness. Collins, who. while he studied to live, felt no evil but poverty, no sooner lived to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities, disease, and insanity.
190 ページ - Iliad." It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning.
315 ページ - When forced the fair nymph to forego, What anguish I felt at my heart ! Yet I thought — but it might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly discern: So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
26 ページ - And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.