The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volum 3G. Cowie, 1825 |
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Pàgina 87
... DRYDEN . TO THE ADVENTURER . I HAVE been for many years a trader in London . My beginning was narrow , and my stock small ; I was , there- fore , a long time brow - beaten and despised by those , who having more money thought they had ...
... DRYDEN . TO THE ADVENTURER . I HAVE been for many years a trader in London . My beginning was narrow , and my stock small ; I was , there- fore , a long time brow - beaten and despised by those , who having more money thought they had ...
Pàgina 101
... DRYDEN . THE evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man , are so numerous and afflictive , that it has been , from age to age , the task of some to bewail , and of others to solace them ; and he , therefore , will be in ...
... DRYDEN . THE evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man , are so numerous and afflictive , that it has been , from age to age , the task of some to bewail , and of others to solace them ; and he , therefore , will be in ...
Pàgina 146
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chro- nology , will publish it : but I do not yet know that my account is ...
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chro- nology , will publish it : but I do not yet know that my account is ...
Pàgina 196
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
Pàgina 287
... Dryden ; and I am afraid will never be confirmed . About sixty years afterwards , Mr. Barber , a printer , mayor of London , and a friend to Butler's principles , bestowed on him a monument in Westminster Abbey , thus inscribed : M. S. ...
... Dryden ; and I am afraid will never be confirmed . About sixty years afterwards , Mr. Barber , a printer , mayor of London , and a friend to Butler's principles , bestowed on him a monument in Westminster Abbey , thus inscribed : M. S. ...
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Pàgina 202 - 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 173 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre 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
Pàgina 217 - ... is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Pàgina 455 - 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 270 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress, are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Pàgina 274 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know.
Pàgina 507 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early : he was one of the first £riends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. . He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was, a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Pàgina 223 - ... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang...
Pàgina 635 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Pàgina 203 - 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.