The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... Addison's , in the Spectator , are more in number , but not half in point of quantity : Addison was not bound to publish on stated days ; he could watch the ebb and flow of his genius , and send his paper to the press when his own taste ...
... Addison's , in the Spectator , are more in number , but not half in point of quantity : Addison was not bound to publish on stated days ; he could watch the ebb and flow of his genius , and send his paper to the press when his own taste ...
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... Addison , he seems to have been fond of his Latin poetry . Those compositions shew that he was an early scholar ; but his verses have not the graceful ease that gave so much suavity to the poems of Addison . The translation of the ...
... Addison , he seems to have been fond of his Latin poetry . Those compositions shew that he was an early scholar ; but his verses have not the graceful ease that gave so much suavity to the poems of Addison . The translation of the ...
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... Addison , Swift , and Pope , with more correctness , carried our language well nigh to perfection . Of Addison , Johnson was used to say , He is the Raphael of essay writers . How he differed so widely from such elegant models is a ...
... Addison , Swift , and Pope , with more correctness , carried our language well nigh to perfection . Of Addison , Johnson was used to say , He is the Raphael of essay writers . How he differed so widely from such elegant models is a ...
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... Addison was not so pro- found a thinker . He was born to write , converse , and live with ease ; and he found an early patron in Lord Somers . He depended , however , more upon a fine taste than the vigour of his mind . His Latin poetry ...
... Addison was not so pro- found a thinker . He was born to write , converse , and live with ease ; and he found an early patron in Lord Somers . He depended , however , more upon a fine taste than the vigour of his mind . His Latin poetry ...
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... Addison , the contrast is still stronger . Addison lends grace and ornament to truth ; Johnson gives it force and energy . Addi- son makes virtue amiable ; Johnson represents it as an awful duty . Addison insinuates himself with an air ...
... Addison , the contrast is still stronger . Addison lends grace and ornament to truth ; Johnson gives it force and energy . Addi- son makes virtue amiable ; Johnson represents it as an awful duty . Addison insinuates himself with an air ...
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Página 152 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Página 153 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Página 115 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Página 157 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Página 150 - The liv'r.it£i army, and the menial lord. With age, with cares, with maladies, oppress'd, He seeks the refuge of monastic rest. Grief aids disease, remember'd folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings.
Página 28 - The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Página 151 - Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter...
Página 156 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and...
Página 36 - ... 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 158 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.