The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the ...
... called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally deter- mined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the ...
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... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- This volume was not published ...
... called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and there- This volume was not published ...
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... called " The Puritan and Papist , " which was only inserted in the last collection of his works * ; and so distinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and ...
... called " The Puritan and Papist , " which was only inserted in the last collection of his works * ; and so distinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and ...
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... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough ...
... called " The Complaint ; " in which he styles himself the melancholy Cowley . This met with the usual fortune of complaints , and seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough ...
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... called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are ...
... called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of tem- perate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are ...
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Página 173 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Página 417 - 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 2 - ... he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 173 - This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body.
Página 63 - 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 97 - ... wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Página 395 - There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves...
Página 418 - As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the news around, Through town and country, till the dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies at last...
Página 436 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 408 - These fight like husbands, but like lovers those : These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy...