The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq, Volum 6F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endea- vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endea- vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
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... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily 20 COWLEY ...
... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily 20 COWLEY ...
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... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poe- try . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree ...
... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poe- try . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree ...
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... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
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Pàgina 411 - power obey. 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. The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis of
Pàgina 411 - untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above: So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, } And musick shall untune the sky.
Pàgina 64 - His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton of Satan: His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be
Pàgina 410 - atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And
Pàgina 329 - the flood to fire: The weaver, charm'd with what his loom design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, " What a wonderful pother is here, to make all these poetical
Pàgina 439 - us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation before the Georgicks is here
Pàgina 37 - speculation can be properly admitted, their copiousness and acuteness may justly be admired. What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an unequalled fertility of invention: Hope, whose weak being ruin'd is, • Alike if it succeed and if it miss; Whom good or ill does equally confound, And both the horns of Fate's dilemma wound;
Pàgina 416 - Such souls as shards produce, such beetle things As only buz to Heaven with evening wings; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance; Such are the blindfold blows of ignorance. They know no being, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the
Pàgina 42 - After this says Bentley *. Who travels in religious jars, Truth mix'd with error, shade with rays, Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. Cowley seems to have had what Milton is believed to have wanted, the skill to rate his own performances by their just value, and has therefore
Pàgina 269 - shewn as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already. From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or