The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen2A. V. Blake, 1842 |
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... reader's esteem for the work and This consideration cannot but abate , in some the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifica ...
... reader's esteem for the work and This consideration cannot but abate , in some the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifica ...
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... reader commonly thinks flection and comparison are employed ; and , in his improvement dearly bought , and though he ... readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Know who dissects a sun - beam with a prism , can ex - ledge : hibit the wide ...
... reader commonly thinks flection and comparison are employed ; and , in his improvement dearly bought , and though he ... readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Know who dissects a sun - beam with a prism , can ex - ledge : hibit the wide ...
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... reader may perhaps cry out- " Confusion worse con founded : " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . Donne . Who but ...
... reader may perhaps cry out- " Confusion worse con founded : " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . Donne . Who but ...
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... reader cover . is commonly surprised into some improvement . But considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
... reader cover . is commonly surprised into some improvement . But considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
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... reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps all the wri- ters of the metaphysical race , is that of pursuing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the ...
... reader too that sits not sure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps all the wri- ters of the metaphysical race , is that of pursuing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the ...
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Página 150 - 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, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Página 254 - ... himself. He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers ; he never attempted to make that better which was already good, nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply...
Página 261 - 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?
Página 27 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history...
Página 174 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Página 245 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit, a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Página 42 - Lost;" a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 10 - ... 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. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles,...
Página 235 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 143 - No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many to righteousness.