Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's LivesH. G. Bohn, 1846 - 419 Seiten |
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... less eminent than himself , was always careful to record the names of their instructors , should obtain a tribute of similar re- spect for his own . By Mr. Price , who was afterwards head master of the same school , and whose name I ...
... less eminent than himself , was always careful to record the names of their instructors , should obtain a tribute of similar re- spect for his own . By Mr. Price , who was afterwards head master of the same school , and whose name I ...
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... less time , I believe I can do it ; but I take two months for certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much time . I think myself very much obliged for your forbearance , and shall esteem it a great happiness to be able ...
... less time , I believe I can do it ; but I take two months for certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much time . I think myself very much obliged for your forbearance , and shall esteem it a great happiness to be able ...
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... less judgment , and the definitions laid down with less acuteness of discrimination . From his new patron , whom he courted without the aid of those graces so devoutly worshipped by that nobleman , he reaped but small advantage ; and ...
... less judgment , and the definitions laid down with less acuteness of discrimination . From his new patron , whom he courted without the aid of those graces so devoutly worshipped by that nobleman , he reaped but small advantage ; and ...
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... less sprightly companion left them , to keep an engagement with some ladies at breakfast , not without reproaches from Johnson for deserting his friends " for a set of unidea'd girls . " In 1753 , he gave to Dr. Bathurst , the physician ...
... less sprightly companion left them , to keep an engagement with some ladies at breakfast , not without reproaches from Johnson for deserting his friends " for a set of unidea'd girls . " In 1753 , he gave to Dr. Bathurst , the physician ...
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... less grave and elaborate . Another wound was inflicted on him by the death of his mother , who had however reached her ninetieth year . His affection and his regret will best appear from the following letter to the daughter of his de ...
... less grave and elaborate . Another wound was inflicted on him by the death of his mother , who had however reached her ninetieth year . His affection and his regret will best appear from the following letter to the daughter of his de ...
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Seite 244 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Seite 36 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Seite 61 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 52 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Seite 221 - Yea, every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
Seite 242 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Seite 10 - He, and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for London together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy-writer. If it should any way lie in your way, doubt* not but you would be ready to recommend and assist your countryman....
Seite 313 - O Nature, how in every charm supreme ! Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ! O for the voice and fire of seraphim, To sing thy glories with devotion due ! Blest be the day I 'scaped the wrangling crew, From Pyrrho's maze, and Epicurus...
Seite 221 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod, How oft, pursuing fancies holy, My moonlight way o'er flowering weeds I wound, Inspired, beyond the guess of folly, By each rude shape and wild unconquerable sound!
Seite 43 - ... at the same time, on the nature and use of such works. The king asked him if it was well done now. Johnson answered, he had no reason to think that it was. The king then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews; and on being answered there...