The works of Samuel Johnson, المجلد 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoe- ver he was , he died before the birth of his son , and con- sequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoe- ver he was , he died before the birth of his son , and con- sequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
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... reason to think that Cowley promised little . It does not appear that his compliance gained him con- fidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was never cancelled ; nor that it made him think himself ...
... reason to think that Cowley promised little . It does not appear that his compliance gained him con- fidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was never cancelled ; nor that it made him think himself ...
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... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is , that , having followed ...
... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is , that , having followed ...
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... reasons that made him to follow the " violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the " greatest throng of his former business , had still called " upon him , and represented to him the true delights " of solitary studies , of ...
... reasons that made him to follow the " violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the " greatest throng of his former business , had still called " upon him , and represented to him the true delights " of solitary studies , of ...
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... however , of the sublime , they en- deavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy be- hind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence , 16 COWLEY .
... however , of the sublime , they en- deavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy be- hind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence , 16 COWLEY .
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الصفحة 312 - 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.
الصفحة 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
الصفحة 60 - 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...
الصفحة 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
الصفحة 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
الصفحة 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
الصفحة 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
الصفحة 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
الصفحة 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
الصفحة 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.