The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volum 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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Pàgina 5
... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the Parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermyn , af- terwards Earl ...
... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the Parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermyn , af- terwards Earl ...
Pàgina 7
... lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , after- wards Earl of ...
... lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , after- wards Earl of ...
Pàgina 8
... Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with passages equally ominous to each . That of the KING was the following : At bello audacis populi vexatus & armis , Finibus ...
... Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with passages equally ominous to each . That of the KING was the following : At bello audacis populi vexatus & armis , Finibus ...
Pàgina 9
... Lord FALKLAND'S : Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa.parenti , Cautius ut sævo velles te credere Marti , DRYDEN . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiæ juvenis miseræ ...
... Lord FALKLAND'S : Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa.parenti , Cautius ut sævo velles te credere Marti , DRYDEN . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiæ juvenis miseræ ...
Pàgina 40
... Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His Elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ...
... Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His Elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ...
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Pàgina 93 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pàgina 417 - 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 77 - 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 98 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Pàgina 154 - 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 22 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Pàgina 174 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Pàgina 21 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Pàgina 104 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Pàgina 437 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.