The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Alexander V. Blake, 1840 |
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... mind , and published till he had been some time at Cam- propensity for some certain science or employ - bridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , ment , which is commonly called genius . The which requires no acquaintance with the ...
... mind , and published till he had been some time at Cam- propensity for some certain science or employ - bridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , ment , which is commonly called genius . The which requires no acquaintance with the ...
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... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose ac- quaintance all nis contemporaries seem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose ac- quaintance all nis contemporaries seem to have been ...
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... mind of Cowley turned into poe- try . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various mea- sures ...
... mind of Cowley turned into poe- try . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various mea- sures ...
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... 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 posi- tions not ...
... 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 posi- tions not ...
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... mind at leisure , and some as they were in vain to expect except from Cowley . His called forth by different occasions , with great strength always appears in his agility ; his vola- variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque ...
... mind at leisure , and some as they were in vain to expect except from Cowley . His called forth by different occasions , with great strength always appears in his agility ; his vola- variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque ...
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Página 275 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Página 279 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 96 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Página 148 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Página 8 - ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before.
Página 21 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection, or incidental meditation.
Página 46 - He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hinderance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Página 211 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 252 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...
Página 111 - Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind.