The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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Pàgina 39
... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the name of Ana- creon . Of these songs dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the name of Ana- creon . Of these songs dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
Pàgina 43
... translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's son , If in ...
... translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's son , If in ...
Pàgina 67
... translation from servility , and , instead of following its author at a distance , walked by his side ; and that if he left versification yet improveable , he left likewise from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled ...
... translation from servility , and , instead of following its author at a distance , walked by his side ; and that if he left versification yet improveable , he left likewise from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled ...
Pàgina 69
... translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , not- withstanding his resolutions and professions , he re- turned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
... translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , not- withstanding his resolutions and professions , he re- turned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
Pàgina 70
... translation of " Cato Major . " This He now resided in France , as one of the follow- ers of the exiled king ; and , to divert the melan- choly of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occasional verses ; one ...
... translation of " Cato Major . " This He now resided in France , as one of the follow- ers of the exiled king ; and , to divert the melan- choly of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occasional verses ; one ...
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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.