The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... remarked of the studious and speculative , that they are proud of trifles , and that their amusements seem frivolous and childish ; whether it be that men , conscious of great reputation , think themselves above the reach of censure ...
... remarked of the studious and speculative , that they are proud of trifles , and that their amusements seem frivolous and childish ; whether it be that men , conscious of great reputation , think themselves above the reach of censure ...
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... remarked , that he began a little to relax his dignity when he wrote a distich for his " Highness's dog . " His admiration of the Great seems to have in- creased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and statesmen to inscribe ...
... remarked , that he began a little to relax his dignity when he wrote a distich for his " Highness's dog . " His admiration of the Great seems to have in- creased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and statesmen to inscribe ...
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... remarked that both end with the same fault ; the comparison of each is li- teral on one side , and metaphorical on the other . Poets do not always express their own thoughts ; Pope , with all this labour in the praise of music , was ...
... remarked that both end with the same fault ; the comparison of each is li- teral on one side , and metaphorical on the other . Poets do not always express their own thoughts ; Pope , with all this labour in the praise of music , was ...
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... remarked that the preternatural agents are very happily adapted to the purposes of the poem . The Heathen deities can no longer gain attention : we should have turned away from a contest between Venus and Diana . The employment of ...
... remarked that the preternatural agents are very happily adapted to the purposes of the poem . The Heathen deities can no longer gain attention : we should have turned away from a contest between Venus and Diana . The employment of ...
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... remarked by Dennis likewise , that the ma- chinery is superfluous ; that , by all the bustle of pre- ternatural operation , the main event is neither has- tened nor retarded . To this charge an efficacious answer is not easily made ...
... remarked by Dennis likewise , that the ma- chinery is superfluous ; that , by all the bustle of pre- ternatural operation , the main event is neither has- tened nor retarded . To this charge an efficacious answer is not easily made ...
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178 ページ - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
90 ページ - 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 unnumber'd gild the glowing pole: O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales — the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
379 ページ - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
178 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.
236 ページ - ... conversation extended his knowledge and opened his prospects. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their race; a word which, applied to wines, in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil.
379 ページ - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
186 ページ - Homer doubtless owes to his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to his character; but to have added can be no great crime, if nothing be taken away. Elegance is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved as well as to be reverenced.
28 ページ - Travels, a production so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity.
284 ページ - As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear : She will say 'twas a barbarous deed.
195 ページ - New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity.