The works of Samuel Johnson, Nide 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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Sivu 17
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubt- edly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
... lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubt- edly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
Sivu 18
Samuel Johnson. only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley a- dopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither impro- ved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fash ...
Samuel Johnson. only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley a- dopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither impro- ved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fash ...
Sivu 19
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholas- tick , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff ...
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholas- tick , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff ...
Sivu 21
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball , A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball , A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
Sivu 22
... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , Love's undersbrieve Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contrast thus ...
... lines so many remote ideas could be brought together ? Since ' tis my doom , Love's undersbrieve Why this reprieve ? Why doth my she advowson fly Incumbency ? To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contrast thus ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admire Æneid afterwards appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Charles Dryden compositions Comus considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Duke Earl easily elegance English excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived Lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost Parliament passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced publick published racter reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew sometimes Sprat supposed thee thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller words write written wrote
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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.