The Works of Samuel Johnson, Nide 9Nichols, 1816 |
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... plays and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology , will pub- lish it ; but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous . * Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere † printed before . The former edition I have not ...
... plays and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology , will pub- lish it ; but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous . * Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere † printed before . The former edition I have not ...
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... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry sharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . H. tally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty ...
... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry sharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . H. tally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty ...
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... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
Sivu 45
... , the perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she " plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , COWLEY . 45.
... , the perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she " plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , COWLEY . 45.
Sivu 47
... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it : He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In ...
... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it : He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In ...
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Sivu 91 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Sivu 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Sivu 382 - DEYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them.
Sivu 413 - 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 150 - 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 257 - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz.
Sivu 169 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Sivu 433 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Sivu 150 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can. tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Sivu 75 - But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise : Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built, Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.