The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, المجلد 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy “ and retirement , he might take occasion of giving " notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of ...
... sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy “ and retirement , he might take occasion of giving " notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of ...
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With An Essay on His Life and Genius Samuel Johnson. sent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun - beam with a prism can exhibit the wide ...
With An Essay on His Life and Genius Samuel Johnson. sent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun - beam with a prism can exhibit the wide ...
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... sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps cry out- Confusion worse confounded . Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both ...
... sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps cry out- Confusion worse confounded . Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both ...
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... sent day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faith- ful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern ...
... sent day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faith- ful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern ...
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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.