The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleas ing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of ...
... excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleas ing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of ...
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... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among ma- ny good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criti- cism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has per- suaded many readers to join with him in his ...
... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among ma- ny good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criti- cism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has per- suaded many readers to join with him in his ...
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... excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distin- guish , and how to commend , the qualities of his com- panion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he for- gets to weep himself , and diverts ...
... excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distin- guish , and how to commend , the qualities of his com- panion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he for- gets to weep himself , and diverts ...
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Samuel Johnson. He was in his own time considered as of unrivalled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English ...
Samuel Johnson. He was in his own time considered as of unrivalled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English ...
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... excellence in poetry , may be applied to these compositions . No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equability , which has ...
... excellence in poetry , may be applied to these compositions . No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equability , which has ...
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Página 312 - 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 51 - 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 60 - 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...
Página 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Página 117 - 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.
Página 31 - 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.
Página 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Página 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Página 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.