The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Tom 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination ' and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination ' and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
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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 pub- lished 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 pub- lished 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 . 17 L ...
... 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 . 17 L ...
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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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Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.