The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen9 |
Comentarios de la gente - Escribir un comentario
No encontramos ningún comentario en los lugares habituales.
Términos y frases comunes
admiration afterwards answer appears beauties beginning better called character Charles common composition considered continued Cowley criticism death delight desire Dryden earl easily elegance English equal excellence expected express fancy favour formed friends gave genius give given hand hope images imagination Italy kind king knowledge known labour lady language learning least less lines lived lord Lost manners means mention Milton mind nature never numbers observed obtained once opinion original performance perhaps person play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise present probably produced publick published reader reason received relates remarks rhyme says seems sent sentiments sometimes supplied supposed thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation true truth verses virtue Waller whole write written wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 371 - 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.
Página 74 - 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.
Página 92 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 61 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 140 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, 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 is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy;...
Página 86 - ... 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.
Página 38 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página 141 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not...
Página 26 - 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.
Página 93 - ... but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen9 The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | William Durell, 1811 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 9 Nov. 2006 |
| Exportar cita | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |