The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's LifeDavid Allinson, 1816 - 140 páginas |
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... fate with a tragedy , and endeavour to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin or the French : Johnson is a very good scholar , and I have great hopes he will turn out a fine tragedy writer . ' In London he ...
... fate with a tragedy , and endeavour to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin or the French : Johnson is a very good scholar , and I have great hopes he will turn out a fine tragedy writer . ' In London he ...
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... fate of Dr. Dodd excited John- son's compassion , and called forth the strenuous exertion of his vast comprehensive mind . He thought his sentence just , yet perhaps fearing that religion might suffer from the errors of one of its ...
... fate of Dr. Dodd excited John- son's compassion , and called forth the strenuous exertion of his vast comprehensive mind . He thought his sentence just , yet perhaps fearing that religion might suffer from the errors of one of its ...
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... fate away- But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay : Here , malice , rapine , accident , conspire , And now a rabble rages , now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay , And here the fell attorney prowls for prey ...
... fate away- But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay : Here , malice , rapine , accident , conspire , And now a rabble rages , now a fire ; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay , And here the fell attorney prowls for prey ...
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... , the needy villain's general home , The common - sewer of Paris and of Rome ; With eager thirst , by folly or by fate , Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state ! Forgive my transports on a theme like this- I cannot 66 JOHNSON'S POEMS .
... , the needy villain's general home , The common - sewer of Paris and of Rome ; With eager thirst , by folly or by fate , Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state ! Forgive my transports on a theme like this- I cannot 66 JOHNSON'S POEMS .
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... Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart , Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart . Has Heaven reserved in pity to the poor , No pathless waste or undiscovered shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful ...
... Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart , Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart . Has Heaven reserved in pity to the poor , No pathless waste or undiscovered shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful ...
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Página 25 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 24 - When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Página 87 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Página 64 - On Thames's banks in silent thought we stood, Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood; Struck with the seat that gave Eliza birth, We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth; In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view: Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce and the dread of Spain, Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, Or English honour grew a standing jest.
Página 74 - observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Página 118 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Página 68 - With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter, ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. * How, when competitors, like these, contend, Can surly virtue hope to fix a friend...
Página 109 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish poured his groan, And lonely want retired to die.
Página 82 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 24 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...