The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... Hiftory of the Heathen Gods , a book compofed for fchools , was written by him in 1711. The work is ufeful ; but might have been produced without the powers of King . The fame year he published Rufinus , an hiftorical effay , and a poem ...
... Hiftory of the Heathen Gods , a book compofed for fchools , was written by him in 1711. The work is ufeful ; but might have been produced without the powers of King . The fame year he published Rufinus , an hiftorical effay , and a poem ...
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... Hiftory of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to know what they were then doing , but how their Tranfac- tions are exhibited by Sprat . In the next year he published Obfervations on Sor- biere's Voyage into England , in a ...
... Hiftory of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to know what they were then doing , but how their Tranfac- tions are exhibited by Sprat . In the next year he published Obfervations on Sor- biere's Voyage into England , in a ...
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... Hiftory of the Rye- houfe Plot , The Relation of his own Examination , and a volume of Sermons . I have heard it obferved , with great juftnefs , that every book is of a different kind , and that each has its diftinct and ...
... Hiftory of the Rye- houfe Plot , The Relation of his own Examination , and a volume of Sermons . I have heard it obferved , with great juftnefs , that every book is of a different kind , and that each has its diftinct and ...
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... hiftory . This play , confifting chiefly of do- mestic scenes and private diftrefs , lays hold upon the heart . The wife is forgiven because the repents , and the husband is honoured because he forgives . This , therefore , is one of ...
... hiftory . This play , confifting chiefly of do- mestic scenes and private diftrefs , lays hold upon the heart . The wife is forgiven because the repents , and the husband is honoured because he forgives . This , therefore , is one of ...
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... hiftories in their original languages , and most " that are wrote in English , French , Italian , and Spanish . He had a ... hiftory , in both which he made great advances in " the times he retired into the country , which was fre- quent ...
... hiftories in their original languages , and most " that are wrote in English , French , Italian , and Spanish . He had a ... hiftory , in both which he made great advances in " the times he retired into the country , which was fre- quent ...
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Addiſon afferted affiftance afterwards againſt anſwer appeared becauſe Cato cenfure character compofitions confidered converfation death deferved defign defired difcovered diftrefs eafily eafy earl elegance endeavoured faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems feldom fent fentiments fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt folicited fome fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftill ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fufpected fupplied fuppofed fupported fure genius Hiftory himſelf honour houfe houſe intereft kindneſs king laft laſt leaſt lefs likewife Lord mafter moft moſt muft muſt neceffary neceffity never obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion perfon perhaps pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetry Pope praife praiſe prefent profe promife propofed publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen raiſed reafon refolution Savage ſcene ſeems ſhe ſtate Swift Syphax Tatler thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought Tickell tion tranflated Tyrconnel uſed verfes vifit virtue Whigs whofe write written wrote
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Página 396 - This tranfgreffion of regularity was by himfelf and his admirers termed greatnefs of foul. But a great mind difdains to hold any thing by courtefy, and therefore never ufurps what a lawful claimant may take away, He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himfelf in his power; he is either repelled with helplefs
Página 87 - wickednefs often profpers in real life, the poet is certainly at liberty to give it profperity on the ftage. For if poetry has an imitation of reality, how are its laws broken by exhibiting the world in its true form ? The Stage may fometimes gratify our wifhes; but, if it be truly the mirror of
Página 84 - of Addifon's genius. Of a work fo much read, it is difficult to fay any thing new. About things on which the publick thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjuftly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama,
Página 381 - made; It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticifm was for a while loft in wonder ; no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity. But when diftinctions came to be made, the part which gave leaft
Página 236 - E. IT has been obferved in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happinefs ; and that thofe whom the fplendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the fummits of human life, have not often given anyjuft
Página 194 - as love writing for writing fake, & w d rather fhow their own Fine Parts, y" Report the valuable ones of any other man. So the Elegy I renounce. I condole with you from my heart, on the lofs of fo worthy a man, and a Friend to us both. Now he is gone, I
Página 331 - The fcheme propofed for this happy and independent fubfiftence was, that he fhould retire into Wales, and receive an allowance of fifty pounds a year, to be raifed by a fubfcription, on which he was to live privately in a cheap place, without afpiring any more to affluence, -or having any farther care of reputation. This
Página 68 - To this the lords would naturally agree; and the king, who was yet little acquainted with his own prerogative, and, as is now well known, almoft indifferent to the poffeffions of the Crown, had been perfuaded to confent. The only difficulty was found among the commons, who were not likely to approve the perpetual
Página 203 - jefts. Furthermore, it drove out of England (for ** that feafon) the Italian Opera, which had carried all " before it for ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that placed all kinds of vice in
Página 40 - Latin, and therefore his profeffion of regard was probably the effect of his civility rather than approbation. Three of his Latin poems are upon fubjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language. The Battle of tie