History of Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaH. Holt, 1895 - 179 páginas |
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Samuel Johnson Oliver Farrar Emerson. PREFACE . THE words of the wise man , " Of ... style . Besides , there has never been a careful study of the sources of ... Johnson's other works . Second , the allusions have been explained on the ...
Samuel Johnson Oliver Farrar Emerson. PREFACE . THE words of the wise man , " Of ... style . Besides , there has never been a careful study of the sources of ... Johnson's other works . Second , the allusions have been explained on the ...
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Samuel Johnson Oliver Farrar Emerson. PREFACE . THE words of the wise man , " Of ... style . Besides , there has never been a careful study of the sources of ... Johnson's other works . Second , the allusions have been explained on the ...
Samuel Johnson Oliver Farrar Emerson. PREFACE . THE words of the wise man , " Of ... style . Besides , there has never been a careful study of the sources of ... Johnson's other works . Second , the allusions have been explained on the ...
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Samuel Johnson Oliver Farrar Emerson. CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . I. CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE WRITING AND PRINTING OF II . III . IV . RASSELAS , • SOURCES OF THE STORY OF THE HAPPY VALLEY , CHARACTER AND INTERPRETATION OF THE WORK , JOHNSON'S ...
Samuel Johnson Oliver Farrar Emerson. CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . I. CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE WRITING AND PRINTING OF II . III . IV . RASSELAS , • SOURCES OF THE STORY OF THE HAPPY VALLEY , CHARACTER AND INTERPRETATION OF THE WORK , JOHNSON'S ...
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... JOHNSON'S STYLE AS EXHIBITED IN " RASSELAS . " Perhaps no English writer has had a style more distinctively his own than Samuel Johnson . No one can fail to perceive marked peculiarities in his ... JOHNSON'S STYLE, AS EXHIBITED IN RASSELAS,
... JOHNSON'S STYLE AS EXHIBITED IN " RASSELAS . " Perhaps no English writer has had a style more distinctively his own than Samuel Johnson . No one can fail to perceive marked peculiarities in his ... JOHNSON'S STYLE, AS EXHIBITED IN RASSELAS,
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... style , the Lives of the Poets of the later . It is important here to note ... Johnson's earlier diction is his use of large and unusual words . In ... Johnson's style was early pointed out , for the reviewer in the Gentleman's Magazine ...
... style , the Lives of the Poets of the later . It is important here to note ... Johnson's earlier diction is his use of large and unusual words . In ... Johnson's style was early pointed out , for the reviewer in the Gentleman's Magazine ...
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Página 156 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 159 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Página 28 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Página 29 - ... be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratifying his reader with remote allusions and unexpected...
Página 19 - In a year the wings were finished, and, on a morning appointed, the maker appeared furnished for flight on a little promontory : he waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake.
Página 176 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 153 - The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence in the superior wisdom of past ages, or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind, but is the consequence of acknowledged and indubitable positions, that •what has been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood.
Página 87 - This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence : and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Página 18 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security.
Página 16 - fishes have the water, in which yet beasts can swim by nature, and men by art. He that can swim needs not despair to fly: to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass.