The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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Pàgina 13
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
Pàgina 147
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home ...
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home ...
Pàgina 168
... for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often , his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to de- fend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is 168 MILTON .
... for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often , his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to de- fend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is 168 MILTON .
Pàgina 189
... play át cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed , was not more the folly of the Puritans than of others . It had in that time a very extensive dominion ...
... play át cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed , was not more the folly of the Puritans than of others . It had in that time a very extensive dominion ...
Pàgina 204
... play , which en- gaged him in one adventure that well deserves to " be related . As he returned to his lodgings from " a gaming - table , he was attacked in the dark by " three ruffians , who were employed to assassinate " him . The ...
... play , which en- gaged him in one adventure that well deserves to " be related . As he returned to his lodgings from " a gaming - table , he was attacked in the dark by " three ruffians , who were employed to assassinate " him . The ...
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Pàgina 145 - 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 18 - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
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 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 404 - Harmony, This universal Frame began; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring Atoms lay, And could not heave her head The tuneful Voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Pàgina 145 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can. tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Pàgina 158 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others - the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Pàgina 94 - I had taken two degrees, as the manner is, signified many ways how much better it would content them that I would stay ; as by many letters full of kindness and loving respect, both before that time and long after, I was assured of their singular good affection towards me.