The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq, Tom 6F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at ...
... written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at ...
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... written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two ...
... written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two ...
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... written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the ...
... written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the ...
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... written about that time on the choice of a Laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
... written about that time on the choice of a Laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
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... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- ' cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave ... written with narrow 18 COWLEY .
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- ' cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave ... written with narrow 18 COWLEY .
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Strona 411 - power obey. 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. The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can owe little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis of
Strona 411 - untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above: So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, } And musick shall untune the sky.
Strona 64 - His spear, the trunk was of a lofty tree, Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be. Milton of Satan: His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be
Strona 410 - atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And
Strona 329 - the flood to fire: The weaver, charm'd with what his loom design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves, Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, " What a wonderful pother is here, to make all these poetical
Strona 439 - us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation before the Georgicks is here
Strona 37 - speculation can be properly admitted, their copiousness and acuteness may justly be admired. What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an unequalled 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 dilemma wound;
Strona 416 - Such souls as shards produce, such beetle things As only buz to Heaven with evening wings; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance; Such are the blindfold blows of ignorance. They know no being, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the
Strona 42 - After this says Bentley *. Who travels in religious jars, Truth mix'd with error, shade with rays, Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. Cowley seems to have had what Milton is believed to have wanted, the skill to rate his own performances by their just value, and has therefore
Strona 269 - shewn as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already. From poetry the reader justly expects, and from good poetry always obtains, the enlargement of his comprehension and elevation of his fancy ; but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or