The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 5H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat ... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was he says ...
... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat ... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was he says ...
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... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the meta- physical poets ; of ...
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth cen- tury , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the meta- physical poets ; of ...
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... nature and art are ransacked for illustrations , comparisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and though he sometimes admires , is ...
... nature and art are ransacked for illustrations , comparisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and though he sometimes admires , is ...
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... nature's well - set clock in pieces took : On all the springs and smallest wheels did look Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLLT . 20 A coal - pit has not often found its COWLEY .
... nature's well - set clock in pieces took : On all the springs and smallest wheels did look Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . COWLLT . 20 A coal - pit has not often found its COWLEY .
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... natures fall : Then from those wombs of stars , the bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And ... Nature's band : And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That ...
... natures fall : Then from those wombs of stars , the bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And ... Nature's band : And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That ...
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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