The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2A. V. Blake, 1846 |
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... death . This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the inen in power , is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets ...
... death . This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the inen in power , is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets ...
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... death , in which | It was treated on the stage with great severity , Wood's narrative seems to imply something en- and was afterward censured as a satire on the comiastic , there has been no appearance . There King's party . is a ...
... death , in which | It was treated on the stage with great severity , Wood's narrative seems to imply something en- and was afterward censured as a satire on the comiastic , there has been no appearance . There King's party . is a ...
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... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound irr every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too with my breath . That the chaos was harmonized ...
... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When sound irr every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too with my breath . That the chaos was harmonized ...
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... DEATH , A VOYAGE . No family E'er rigg'd a soul for heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . Donne . Their thoughts and expressions were some . times grossly ...
... DEATH , A VOYAGE . No family E'er rigg'd a soul for heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . Donne . Their thoughts and expressions were some . times grossly ...
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... death hath now enfranchis'd thee ; Thou hast thy expansion now , and liberty ; Think , that a rusty piece discharg'd is flown In pieces , and the bullet is his own , And freely flies ; this to thy soul allow , Think thy shell broke ...
... death hath now enfranchis'd thee ; Thou hast thy expansion now , and liberty ; Think , that a rusty piece discharg'd is flown In pieces , and the bullet is his own , And freely flies ; this to thy soul allow , Think thy shell broke ...
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Seite 26 - 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.
Seite 10 - 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.
Seite 244 - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation; and those of Pope by minute...
Seite 437 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
Seite 35 - 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.
Seite 10 - To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.
Seite 38 - Milton's republicanism was, I am afraid, founded in an envious hatred of greatness, and a sullen desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the State, and prelates in the Church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty as repugnance to authority.
Seite 41 - The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth; rebellion against the Supreme King raised by the highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of their host and the punishment of their crime; the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures; their original happiness and innocence, their forfeiture...
Seite 9 - Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account. The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to...
Seite 270 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.