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Pàgina 38
To the following comparison of a man that travels and his wife that stays at home ,
with a pair of compasses , it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has
better claim : Our two souls , therefore , which are one , Though I must go ...
To the following comparison of a man that travels and his wife that stays at home ,
with a pair of compasses , it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has
better claim : Our two souls , therefore , which are one , Though I must go ...
Pàgina 74
... by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and
themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great
success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please
better .
... by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and
themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great
success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please
better .
Pàgina 93
The university in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I never
greatly admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who
thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his ...
The university in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I never
greatly admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who
thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his ...
Pàgina 366
His description of the fire is painted by resolute me ditation , out of a mind better
formed to reason than to feel . The conflagration of a city , with all its tumults of
concomitant distress , is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can
...
His description of the fire is painted by resolute me ditation , out of a mind better
formed to reason than to feel . The conflagration of a city , with all its tumults of
concomitant distress , is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can
...
Pàgina 383
With not much better success , Trapp , when his tragedy and his prelections had
given him reputation , attempted another blank version of the Æneid ; to which ,
notwithstanding the slight regard with which it was treated , he had afterwards ...
With not much better success , Trapp , when his tragedy and his prelections had
given him reputation , attempted another blank version of the Æneid ; to which ,
notwithstanding the slight regard with which it was treated , he had afterwards ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 369 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Pàgina 72 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pàgina 90 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pàgina 59 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Pàgina 138 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy;...
Pàgina 84 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pàgina 36 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Pàgina 139 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. 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 eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not...
Pàgina 24 - Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Pàgina 91 - ... but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation...
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volum 9 The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1811 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalitzat el | 9 Nov. 2006 |
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