The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 5H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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Pàgina 9
... perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
... perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
Pàgina 14
... perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre , to works which have more propriety though less ...
... perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre , to works which have more propriety though less ...
Pàgina 37
... perhaps the perception of this growing incumberance inclined him to stop . By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight . If the continuation of the Davideis can be missed it is for the learning that had been diffused ...
... perhaps the perception of this growing incumberance inclined him to stop . By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight . If the continuation of the Davideis can be missed it is for the learning that had been diffused ...
Pàgina 38
... perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the perusal of Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered . Attention has no relief : the affections are never moved ; we are ...
... perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the perusal of Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered . Attention has no relief : the affections are never moved ; we are ...
Pàgina 43
... perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs and ...
... perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs and ...
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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
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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