The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 5H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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Pàgina 6
... hands ; " and Cowley being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that " under pre- tence of ... hand , And lie unbury'd on the barren sand . LORD FALKLAND'S . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa parenti ...
... hands ; " and Cowley being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that " under pre- tence of ... hand , And lie unbury'd on the barren sand . LORD FALKLAND'S . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa parenti ...
Pàgina 7
... hands he was might free him from confine- ment , he did what no law of society prohibits . The man whose miscarriage in a just cause has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any violation of his integrity , regain his liberty ...
... hands he was might free him from confine- ment , he did what no law of society prohibits . The man whose miscarriage in a just cause has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any violation of his integrity , regain his liberty ...
Pàgina 19
... hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purging grow . The World and a Clock . Mahol th ' inferior world's fantastic face Through all the turns of matter's maze did trace ; Great nature's well - set clock in ...
... hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak of purging grow . The World and a Clock . Mahol th ' inferior world's fantastic face Through all the turns of matter's maze did trace ; Great nature's well - set clock in ...
Pàgina 20
... hand grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart if once mine come Into the self - same room ; " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenade shot into a magazin . Then shall love keep the ashes , and torn parts , Of both our broken ...
... hand grenado . Woe to her stubborn heart if once mine come Into the self - same room ; " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenade shot into a magazin . Then shall love keep the ashes , and torn parts , Of both our broken ...
Pàgina 21
... hands of double office ; for the ground We till with them ; and them to Heaven we raise ; Who prayerless labours , or , without this , prays , Doth but one half , that's none . By the same author , a common topic , the danger of procras ...
... hands of double office ; for the ground We till with them ; and them to Heaven we raise ; Who prayerless labours , or , without this , prays , Doth but one half , that's none . By the same author , a common topic , the danger of procras ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison admiration Æneid afterwards appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered contempt court Cowley criticism death declared delight diction Dryden duke earl elegance endeavoured English Euripides excellence favour fortune friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden justly kind king known labour lady language Latin learning lines lived lord lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed occasion opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced published queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems seldom sentiments sometimes supposed Syphax Tatler thing thought Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses versification Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote
Passatges populars
Pàgina 250 - heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, And music's power obey. From harmony from heavenly harmony, From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, This universal frame began: The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful
Pàgina 292 - whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend; but what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. In the library at Oxford is the following ludicrous Analysis
Pàgina 250 - So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his
Pàgina 24 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like the other foot obliquely run. Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Pàgina 53 - He went to the university with a design of entering into the church, but in time altered his mind; for he declared that whoever became a clergyman must " subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which, unless he took with a conscience that could not retch, he must straight perjure himself.
Pàgina 250 - itself, that it can owe little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis of music untuning had found some other place. The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above: As from the power of sacred lays
Pàgina 518 - afflictions from which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him ; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Pàgina 55 - which," says he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pàgina 46 - Should such a man too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem
Pàgina 205 - (Such as disquiet always what is well, And by ill-imitating would excel,) Might hence presume the whole creation's day To change in scenes, and show it in a play." It is another of his hasty productions; for the heat of his imagination raised it in a month. This composition is addressed to the princess of