The works of Samuel Johnson, Nide 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... mind , not very extensive or dif- ficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been ...
... mind , not very extensive or dif- ficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been ...
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... mind , and propensity for some certain science or em- ployment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally VOL . VI . B determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua ...
... mind , and propensity for some certain science or em- ployment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally VOL . VI . B determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua ...
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... mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he pub- lished " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his con- temporaries seem to have ...
... mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he pub- lished " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his con- temporaries seem to have ...
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... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been ...
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... mind ( whereby he gained " the ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into " France again , having made a copy of verses on Oli- " ver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be ...
... mind ( whereby he gained " the ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into " France again , having made a copy of verses on Oli- " ver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be ...
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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.