The works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as ...
... desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as ...
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... desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
... desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
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... desire of pleas ing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to ap- pear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
... desire of pleas ing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to ap- pear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
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... desire had been for some days past , " and did still very vehemently continue , to retire him- ' self to some of the American plantations , and to for- " sake this world for ever . " 65 From the obloquy which the appearance of submis ...
... desire had been for some days past , " and did still very vehemently continue , to retire him- ' self to some of the American plantations , and to for- " sake this world for ever . " 65 From the obloquy which the appearance of submis ...
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... desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expect- " ed , while others for their money carried places , he retired discontented into Surrey ...
... desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expect- " ed , while others for their money carried places , he retired discontented into Surrey ...
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Pàgina 312 - 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.
Pàgina 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Pàgina 60 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Pàgina 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Pàgina 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Pàgina 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Pàgina 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Pàgina 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Pàgina 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Pàgina 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.