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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... give authenticity to stories of appari- tions , and easy to credit the existence of a second sight , while he appeared scrupulous and scepti- cal as to particular facts . These mental distempers , are justly attributed to his melancholy ...
... give authenticity to stories of appari- tions , and easy to credit the existence of a second sight , while he appeared scrupulous and scepti- cal as to particular facts . These mental distempers , are justly attributed to his melancholy ...
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... gives Cardinal Wolsey ; and Buckingham , stabbed by Felton , for Demosthenes and Cicero , Lidiat , Ga- hileo , and Laud ; for Hannibal , Charles XII . of Sweden ; and to show the consequences of long life , he says , From Marlb'rough's ...
... gives Cardinal Wolsey ; and Buckingham , stabbed by Felton , for Demosthenes and Cicero , Lidiat , Ga- hileo , and Laud ; for Hannibal , Charles XII . of Sweden ; and to show the consequences of long life , he says , From Marlb'rough's ...
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... convey useful in- struction , and elegant entertainment , as long as the language in which they are written shall be understood ; and give him a just claim to a distin- guished rank , among the best and ablest writers that 60 LIFE OF.
... convey useful in- struction , and elegant entertainment , as long as the language in which they are written shall be understood ; and give him a just claim to a distin- guished rank , among the best and ablest writers that 60 LIFE OF.
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... Give to St. David one true Briton more . For who would leave , unbribed , Hibernia's land , Or change the rocks of Scotland for the strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away- But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay : Here ...
... Give to St. David one true Briton more . For who would leave , unbribed , Hibernia's land , Or change the rocks of Scotland for the strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away- But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay : Here ...
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... give , has learned to live : Let live here , for Here let those reign whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black , a courtier white ; Explain their country's dear - bought rights away , And plead for pirates in the face of day ...
... give , has learned to live : Let live here , for Here let those reign whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black , a courtier white ; Explain their country's dear - bought rights away , And plead for pirates in the face of day ...
Términos y frases comunes
bard beauty Behold bosom Boswell breast censure charms Chesterfield crowd death delight Dictionary Dodsley Drury Lane theatre English English language essays eyes fair fame fate fire flatter foes frown Garrick genius Gentleman's Magazine gold grace hear heart Heaven honour hope imitation Juvenal kind king labours language learning light LINDLEY MURRAY literary lives London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Gower mankind manner merit mind mirth moral Murphy musick myrtle nature's never night nymphs o'er pamphlet peaceful pension Piozzi play pleasing pleasure poem poet praise pride PROLOGUE publick published rage Rambler Rasselas reign Samuel Johnson satire SATIRE OF JUVENAL scarce scorn shade shine sighs sing Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds skies smile sooth soul Stella Streatham thou Thrale tion toil tragedy TRANSLATION university of Oxford verdant verse virtue virtue's voice wealth wise wish writing written youth
Pasajes populares
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...