The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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Pàgina 5
... age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis יז of all excellence is truth : he that professes love COWLEY . 5.
... age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis יז of all excellence is truth : he that professes love COWLEY . 5.
Pàgina 8
... manners of that time were so tinged with su- perstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of ha- ving consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years ...
... manners of that time were so tinged with su- perstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of ha- ving consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years ...
Pàgina 14
... manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own ...
... manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own ...
Pàgina 21
... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
Pàgina 40
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established or- der of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is ...
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established or- der of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is ...
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Pàgina 74 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pàgina 73 - 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 375 - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them.
Pàgina 35 - 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 206 - At the moment in which he expired, he uttered, with an energy of voice, that expressed the most fervent devotion, two lines of his own version of Dies Ira; : My God, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me in my end.
Pàgina 144 - It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel.
Pàgina 404 - Blest above; 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!
Pàgina 130 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Pàgina 394 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Pàgina 19 - Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments: and could no more represent, by their slender conceits 'and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon.