The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year ...
... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year ...
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... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate in some mea- sure the reader's esteem for the work and the author ...
... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate in some mea- sure the reader's esteem for the work and the author ...
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... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself ...
... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself ...
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... character of Phy- sician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to " dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the “ men then in power ( which was much taken notice " of by ...
... character of Phy- sician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to " dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the “ men then in power ( which was much taken notice " of by ...
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... " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry sharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . H. tally tally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness 14 COWLEY .
... " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry sharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . H. tally tally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness 14 COWLEY .
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Página 93 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
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 77 - 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 98 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 154 - 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 22 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Página 174 - 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.
Página 21 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; 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.
Página 104 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Página 437 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.