The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poetsG. Dearborn, 1837 |
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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon dis- tinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon dis- tinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
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... present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contra- distinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
... present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contra- distinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
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... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
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... present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable ...
... present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable ...
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... present time , to image the tu- expand and illustrate it with all the accessaries mult of absurdity , and clamour of contradiction , that books can furnish : he is found not only to which perplexed doctrine , disordered practice , and ...
... present time , to image the tu- expand and illustrate it with all the accessaries mult of absurdity , and clamour of contradiction , that books can furnish : he is found not only to which perplexed doctrine , disordered practice , and ...
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Página 248 - Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden 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 26 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 116 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in...
Página 39 - Among the flocks, and copses and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Página 92 - Longinus, on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished, or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of...
Página 255 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
Página 9 - On a round ball A workman, that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all. So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, A globe, yea world, by that impression grow, Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world, by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so.
Página 238 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified.
Página 144 - It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude,...
Página 42 - The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate his appetite of greatness. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings,...