The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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Pàgina 5
... thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petarch , who , in an age rude and ...
... thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petarch , who , in an age rude and ...
Pàgina 12
... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " the Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman - street . " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterwards censured as a satire ...
... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " the Guardian " for the stage , he produced it under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman - street . " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterwards censured as a satire ...
Pàgina 13
... . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , COWLEY , 13.
... . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , COWLEY , 13.
Pàgina 14
... thought himself now safe enough from intrusion , without the defence of moun- tains and oceans ; and , instead of seeking shelter in * L'Allegro of Milton . America , wisely went only so far from the bustle 14 COWLEY .
... thought himself now safe enough from intrusion , without the defence of moun- tains and oceans ; and , instead of seeking shelter in * L'Allegro of Milton . America , wisely went only so far from the bustle 14 COWLEY .
Pàgina 17
... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of VOL . IX . C their diction . But Pope's account of ...
... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of VOL . IX . C their diction . But Pope's account of ...
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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.