The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... thought all that he writ , and retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomiastick . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ...
... thought all that he writ , and retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomiastick . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ...
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... thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , ' says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose custody he was to be placed , was ...
... thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , ' says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose custody he was to be placed , was ...
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... thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellencies , and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of ...
... thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellencies , and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of ...
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... thought wrong . The event of every experiment is fore- seen , and , therefore , the process is not much regarded ... thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images , or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced ...
... thought wrong . The event of every experiment is fore- seen , and , therefore , the process is not much regarded ... thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images , or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced ...
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... thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into heroick poetry " . He had , apparently , such rectitude of judgment as se- cured him from every thing that approached to the ridicu- lous or absurd ; but as laws operate ...
... thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into heroick poetry " . He had , apparently , such rectitude of judgment as se- cured him from every thing that approached to the ridicu- lous or absurd ; but as laws operate ...
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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.