The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Том 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... as injurious to his repu- * He was a candidate this year at Westminster - school for elec- tion to Trinity - college , but proved unsuccessful . N. í . tation ; tation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres 4 COWLEY.
... as injurious to his repu- * He was a candidate this year at Westminster - school for elec- tion to Trinity - college , but proved unsuccessful . N. í . tation ; tation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres 4 COWLEY.
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... tion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly as- serted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprized ...
... tion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly as- serted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprized ...
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... tion ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his skin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then his scarfe , and related it in the terms of the mercer and tailor . Some- Sometimes he indulges ...
... tion ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his skin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then his scarfe , and related it in the terms of the mercer and tailor . Some- Sometimes he indulges ...
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With An Essay on His Life and Genius Samuel Johnson. tion , unless it be possible to describe by negatives ; for he tells us only what there is not in Heaven . Tasso endeavours to represent the splendours and pleasures of the regions of ...
With An Essay on His Life and Genius Samuel Johnson. tion , unless it be possible to describe by negatives ; for he tells us only what there is not in Heaven . Tasso endeavours to represent the splendours and pleasures of the regions of ...
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... tion ; for he was instructed at first by private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who was after- wards chaplain to the English merchants at Ham- burgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him ...
... tion ; for he was instructed at first by private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who was after- wards chaplain to the English merchants at Ham- burgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.