The works of Samuel Johnson, Nide 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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Sivu 10
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , ( for May I hold to be superior to both , ) the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the an- cients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , ( for May I hold to be superior to both , ) the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the an- cients in their language ...
Sivu 31
... mind . His levity never leaves his learn- ing behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the cri- tick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought E 2 COWLEY . 31.
... mind . His levity never leaves his learn- ing behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the cri- tick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought E 2 COWLEY . 31.
Sivu 32
Samuel Johnson. genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscella- nies with the verses upon Crashaw , which ...
Samuel Johnson. genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscella- nies with the verses upon Crashaw , which ...
Sivu 41
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
Sivu 56
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required ' him to ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required ' him to ...
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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.