The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the English poets (cont.) Lives of eminent personsG. Cowie & Company, 1825 |
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... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , and most obedient servant , GEO . GRANVILLE . " Through the whole reign of king William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement , and ...
... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , and most obedient servant , GEO . GRANVILLE . " Through the whole reign of king William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement , and ...
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... believe , ever seen by either of the Cibbers ; but was the work of Robert Shiels , a native of Scotland , a man of very acute understanding , though with little scho- lastick education , who , not long after the publication of his work ...
... believe , ever seen by either of the Cibbers ; but was the work of Robert Shiels , a native of Scotland , a man of very acute understanding , though with little scho- lastick education , who , not long after the publication of his work ...
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... application to your Ladyship , because there is scarce a possi- bility that I should say more than I believe , when I am speaking of your excellence . " Dr. J. house ; but there was not room for the whole 48 SAVAGE .
... application to your Ladyship , because there is scarce a possi- bility that I should say more than I believe , when I am speaking of your excellence . " Dr. J. house ; but there was not room for the whole 48 SAVAGE .
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... believe , never attempted after- wards to speak to her . But , shocked as he was with her falsehood and her cruelty , he imagined that she intended no other use of her lie , than to set herself free from his embraces and solicita- tions ...
... believe , never attempted after- wards to speak to her . But , shocked as he was with her falsehood and her cruelty , he imagined that she intended no other use of her lie , than to set herself free from his embraces and solicita- tions ...
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... believe , never published . Should Dennis publish you had stabb'd your brother , Lampoon'd your monarch , or debauch'd your mother ; Say , what revenge on Dennis can be had , Too dull for laughter , for reply too mad ? On one so poor ...
... believe , never published . Should Dennis publish you had stabb'd your brother , Lampoon'd your monarch , or debauch'd your mother ; Say , what revenge on Dennis can be had , Too dull for laughter , for reply too mad ? On one so poor ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared Ascham authour blank verse Bohemia censure character considered contempt continued court criticks death declared degree desire diligence discovered Drake Dryden Dunciad easily EDWARD CAVE elegant endeavoured enemies English expected father favour fortune friends friendship gave genius Gentleman's Magazine honour hope Iliad imagination kind king of Prussia knowledge labour lady language learning letter lived lord mankind mind nature never Night Thoughts Nombre de Dios observed occasion opinion perhaps physick pinnaces pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present prince printed procured publick published queen racter reader reason received Religio Medici remarkable reputation retired Savage says seems sent shew ships Silesia Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Spaniards sufficient supposed Swift Symerons tion told translation Tyrconnel verses virtue write written wrote Young
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Página 403 - The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning " Yet even these bones," are to me original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.
Página 329 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire: perhaps a sullen and surly speculator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human reason.
Página 251 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden i obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 131 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
Página 279 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And, sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust ; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest ' Blest in thy genius, in thy love, too, blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Página 300 - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments.
Página 325 - I have formerly said of his writings may be added, that his diction was often harsh, unskilfully laboured, and injudiciously selected. He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry.
Página 286 - Yet softer honours, and less noisy fame, Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham : In whom a race, for courage fam'd and art, Ends in the milder merit of the heart : And, chiefs or sages long to Britain given, Pays the last tribute of a saint to Heaven.
Página 206 - He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them, either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the 'Dunciad...
Página 402 - These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments; they strike, rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and trouble.