The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, المجلد 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guar- " dian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn ...
... beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guar- " dian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn ...
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... beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- sical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men ...
... beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- sical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men ...
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... beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity ; and the thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance ...
... beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity ; and the thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance ...
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... beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar * , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first ...
... beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar * , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first ...
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... beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire ...
... beginning , being probably most in pain for his Latinity , he endeavours to defend his use of the word persona ; but , if I remember right , he misses a better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire ...
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الصفحة 93 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
الصفحة 417 - 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 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...
الصفحة 98 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
الصفحة 154 - 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 22 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
الصفحة 174 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
الصفحة 21 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
الصفحة 104 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
الصفحة 437 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.