The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Luke Hansard, 1806 |
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... easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dry- den's works are placed in wrong years , I have followed Langbaine , as the beft autho- rity for his plays : and if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology ...
... easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dry- den's works are placed in wrong years , I have followed Langbaine , as the beft autho- rity for his plays : and if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology ...
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... easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man haraffed in one kingdom , and perfecuted in another , who , after a course of bufinefs that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man haraffed in one kingdom , and perfecuted in another , who , after a course of bufinefs that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
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... water's name ; and England , during the Civil War , was Albion no more , nor to be named from white . It is furely by fome fascination not easily furmounted , that a writer , profeffing to revive the nobleft and I that 50 COWLEY .
... water's name ; and England , during the Civil War , was Albion no more , nor to be named from white . It is furely by fome fascination not easily furmounted , that a writer , profeffing to revive the nobleft and I that 50 COWLEY .
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... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience ...
... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience ...
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... easily gains attention ; and he , who told every man that he was equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmafius was not dif- perfed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eager- nefs , is very ...
... easily gains attention ; and he , who told every man that he was equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmafius was not dif- perfed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eager- nefs , is very ...
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Página 100 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 394 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.
Página 77 - 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...
Página 19 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Página 275 - The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Página 28 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all, So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, A globe, yea world by that impression grow, Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
Página 387 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Página 159 - The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.
Página 417 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 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.
Página 276 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved.