The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell & Bradfute ... [and 3 others] and S. Campbell, New York, 1806 |
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Strona 83
... public happiness , if not to destroy it . He is no lover of his country , that unnecessarily disturbs its peace . Few errors , and few faults of government , can justify an appeal to the rabble ; who ought not to judge of what they ...
... public happiness , if not to destroy it . He is no lover of his country , that unnecessarily disturbs its peace . Few errors , and few faults of government , can justify an appeal to the rabble ; who ought not to judge of what they ...
Strona 84
... public dangers at a distance . The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears , and to sound the alarm , whenever he per- ceives the approach of mischief . But he sounds no alarm , when there is no enemy : he never ...
... public dangers at a distance . The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears , and to sound the alarm , whenever he per- ceives the approach of mischief . But he sounds no alarm , when there is no enemy : he never ...
Strona 231
... public hate , " Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . " On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown , " Yet what he wrote was all his own ; " Horace's wit , and Virgil's state , " He did not steal but emulate ! " And , when he ...
... public hate , " Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . " On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown , " Yet what he wrote was all his own ; " Horace's wit , and Virgil's state , " He did not steal but emulate ! " And , when he ...
Strona 263
... public councils , the leader of unconquered armies , " the father of your country ; for by that title " does every good man hail you with sincere and " voluntary praise . " 66 Next year , having defended all that wanted de- fence , he ...
... public councils , the leader of unconquered armies , " the father of your country ; for by that title " does every good man hail you with sincere and " voluntary praise . " 66 Next year , having defended all that wanted de- fence , he ...
Strona 271
... public trust ; but of Milton there was no exception . Of this tenderness shewn to Milton , the curio- sity of mankind has not forborn to inquire the reason . Burnet thinks he was forgotten ; but this is another instance which may ...
... public trust ; but of Milton there was no exception . Of this tenderness shewn to Milton , the curio- sity of mankind has not forborn to inquire the reason . Burnet thinks he was forgotten ; but this is another instance which may ...
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Strona 148 - ... he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Strona 182 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th...
Strona 288 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Strona 242 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Strona 297 - 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 59 - ... fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless, and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean,...
Strona 297 - Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and, at least, approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author.
Strona 252 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Strona 312 - ... is the business of impartial criticism to discover. As, in displaying the excellence of Milton, I have not made long quotations, because of selecting beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve censure; for what Englishman can take delight in transcribing passages, which, if they lessen the reputation of Milton, diminish in some degree the honour of our country...
Strona 172 - On reading the following lines, the reader may perhaps cry out, "Confusion worse confounded": Here lies a she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best light to his sphere, Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe.