The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... observation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than ...
... observation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particularities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than ...
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... observed : the few decisions and remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time acces- sions to English literature , and shew such skill as rai- ses our wish for more examples . The lines from ...
... observed : the few decisions and remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time acces- sions to English literature , and shew such skill as rai- ses our wish for more examples . The lines from ...
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... observe , that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is super- added by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry ...
... observe , that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is super- added by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry ...
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... observed in divers " other places of this poem , that else will pass for very " careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . " In the second book ; Down a precipice deep , down he casts them ...
... observed in divers " other places of this poem , that else will pass for very " careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . " In the second book ; Down a precipice deep , down he casts them ...
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... observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Classicks , that Cowley was beloved by every Muse that he courted ; and that he has rivalled the Ancients in every kind of poetry but tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiastick fer ...
... observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Classicks , that Cowley was beloved by every Muse that he courted ; and that he has rivalled the Ancients in every kind of poetry but tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiastick fer ...
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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.