The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr. Warton , in his Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen , ' gave some account which Huggins attempted to answer with violence , and said , ' I will militate no longer ...
... literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr. Warton , in his Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen , ' gave some account which Huggins attempted to answer with violence , and said , ' I will militate no longer ...
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... literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of critics , ( which hath of late too often passed in Scotland for Metaphysicks , ) he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : -Dr . John- son has ...
... literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of critics , ( which hath of late too often passed in Scotland for Metaphysicks , ) he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : -Dr . John- son has ...
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... literary ambition , Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick , as Pococke did . " " As an instance of the niceness of his taste , though he praised West's translation of Pindar , he ...
... literary ambition , Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick , as Pococke did . " " As an instance of the niceness of his taste , though he praised West's translation of Pindar , he ...
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... literary lady has favoured me with a characteristick anecdote of Richardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr ...
... literary lady has favoured me with a characteristick anecdote of Richardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr ...
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... literary anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irish- man and a Scotchman , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guth- rie , that he knew no English , and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French ; and ...
... literary anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irish- man and a Scotchman , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guth- rie , that he knew no English , and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French ; and ...
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الصفحة 324 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
الصفحة 100 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
الصفحة 104 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
الصفحة 47 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
الصفحة 48 - The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets. " His best actions are but [convenient] inability of wickedness. " When once he had engaged himself in disputation [matter], thoughts flowed in on either side. " The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy.
الصفحة 459 - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
الصفحة 151 - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
الصفحة 113 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
الصفحة 80 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
الصفحة 316 - We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Novell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we drank "Church and King" after dinner, with true Tory cordiality.