The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volum 9Nichols, 1816 |
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... known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
... known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general ...
Pàgina 7
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; 66 66 " The Scotch treaty , " says he ...
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; 66 66 " The Scotch treaty , " says he ...
Pàgina 14
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a right , in things ...
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a right , in things ...
Pàgina 18
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . * Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , Alderman of London . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark was , in 1798 , elected to ...
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . * Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , Alderman of London . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark was , in 1798 , elected to ...
Pàgina 27
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A Lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
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Pàgina 91 - ... 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 77 - 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 382 - DEYDEN 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 413 - 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 150 - 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 257 - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz.
Pàgina 169 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Pàgina 433 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Pàgina 150 - 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 75 - But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise : Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built, Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.