The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 5H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... reason to suspect that his father was a secretary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and con- sequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood repre- sents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
... reason to suspect that his father was a secretary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and con- sequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood repre- sents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
Pàgina 8
... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as ...
... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as ...
Pàgina 9
... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is that , having followed ...
... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is that , having followed ...
Pàgina 13
... reason but fancy behind them ; and produced com- binations of confused magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost if they ...
... reason but fancy behind them ; and produced com- binations of confused magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost if they ...
Pàgina 26
... reason are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it , that of judging , not ...
... reason are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it , that of judging , not ...
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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