The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen9Nichols, 1816 |
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... admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learn- ing not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard The phoenix Truth did on ...
... admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learn- ing not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard The phoenix Truth did on ...
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... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
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... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an un- equalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an un- equalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of Fate's ...
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... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine parti- cularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
... admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the me- taphysical poets , it is now proper to examine parti- cularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race ...
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... admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the ...
... admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the ...
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Página 91 - ... 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 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 382 - DEYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them.
Página 413 - 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 150 - 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 257 - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz.
Página 169 - 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 433 - 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 150 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can. tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Página 75 - But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise : Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built, Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.