The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... gives reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoe- ver he was , he died before the birth of his son , and con- sequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a ...
... gives reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoe- ver he was , he died before the birth of his son , and con- sequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a ...
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... gives a very satisfactory account of this practice of seeking fates in books : and says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . H ...
... gives a very satisfactory account of this practice of seeking fates in books : and says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . H ...
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... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always secured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power ...
... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always secured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the disposal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power ...
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... give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of wri- ting poetry they only wrote verses , and very often ...
... give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of wri- ting poetry they only wrote verses , and very often ...
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... give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of senti- ment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very ...
... give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of senti- ment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very ...
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Página 312 - 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.
Página 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 60 - 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...
Página 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Página 117 - 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.
Página 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Página 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Página 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.