The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... says in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakedness of thy country , and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets ...
... says in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakedness of thy country , and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets ...
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... says he , " or more inhuman , than to propose to me a question , by the answer- ing of which I might , according to them , prove myself a traitor ? And notwithstanding their solemn promise , that nothing which I could say should hurt ...
... says he , " or more inhuman , than to propose to me a question , by the answer- ing of which I might , according to them , prove myself a traitor ? And notwithstanding their solemn promise , that nothing which I could say should hurt ...
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... says he , “ I took little care of my ears while I was not sure if my head was my own . " Of any occurrences in his remaining life I have found no account . In a letter to Swift , " I have , " says he , " treated lady Harriot at ...
... says he , “ I took little care of my ears while I was not sure if my head was my own . " Of any occurrences in his remaining life I have found no account . In a letter to Swift , " I have , " says he , " treated lady Harriot at ...
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... was confessedly the ornament of the stage . " I know all that , " says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne saurais vous entendre . " i Spence . h Spence . In a gay French company , where every one sang PRIOR . 13.
... was confessedly the ornament of the stage . " I know all that , " says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne saurais vous entendre . " i Spence . h Spence . In a gay French company , where every one sang PRIOR . 13.
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... says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him ...
... says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him ...
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Página 266 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 201 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Página 240 - He professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality ; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment were not allotted in a less proportion to Dryden than to Pope.
Página 267 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes.
Página 281 - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation.
Página 361 - My process has now brought me to the wonderful Wonder of Wonders, the two sister odes, by which, though either vulgar ignorance or common sense at first universally rejected them, many have been since persuaded to think themselves delighted. I am one of those that are willing to be pleased, and therefore would gladly find the meaning of the first stanza of The Progress of Poetry.
Página 301 - Martin, a lieutenant-colonel, left him about two thousand pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas •were then repaid, and the translation neglected. But man is not born for happiness. Collins, who. while he studied to live, felt no evil but poverty, no sooner lived to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities, disease, and insanity.
Página 190 - Iliad." It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning.
Página 315 - When forced the fair nymph to forego, What anguish I felt at my heart ! Yet I thought — but it might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly discern: So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
Página 26 - And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.