 Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and, at least, approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - 297 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1806全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 ページ
...resist ? And what are we to think of Johnson's capacity for directly perceiving beauty when he adds, " surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." 1 This surely is letting Ms judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after we have made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 ページ
...least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its...man could have fancied that he read " Lycidas " with 10 pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, " L' Allegro " and " II Penseroso," I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 ページ
...resist? And what are we to think of Johnson's capacity for directly perceiving beauty, when he adds, " surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author." 1 This surely is letting his judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after we have made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 ページ
...resist ? And what are we to think of Johnson's capacity for directly perceiving beauty, when he adds, " surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." ' This surely is letting his judgment get the better of him with a vengeance. But after we have made... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 238 ページ
...regard to the merits of " Lycidas." Dr. Johnson wound up his curiously inept criticism by remarking : "Surely no man could have fancied that he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known the author." The cold and judicious Hal him wrote on the other hand: "It has been said, I think very fairly, that... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 ページ
...for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting. . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author." He acknowledges that " L'Allegro " and " II Penseroso " are " noble efforts of imagination... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1899 - 308 ページ
...regard to the merits of "Lycidas." Dr. Johnson wound up his curiously inept criticism by remarking : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known the author." The cold and judicious Hallam wrote on the other hand : " It has been said, I think very fairly, that... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1899 - 304 ページ
...satyrs' and 'fauns with cloven heel.' When there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief. . . . Surely no man could have fancied that he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure had he not known its author." This passage positively 100 bristles with blunders as Drury Lane (in the advertisements)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 ページ
...believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly ac10 quired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination....he read ' Lycidas ' with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, ' L'Allegro ' and ' II Penseroso,' 1 5 I believe opinion is uniform... | |
 | 1902 - 990 ページ
...me that I knew Johnson had depreciated it, too, and said of it that surely no man could have fancied he read " Lycidas" with pleasure had he not known the author. Of what consequence was it who had written it, or what men did or did not fancy? All that concerned me... | |
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