The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing Adventurer and RasselasJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... beauty of conception , and " a wonderful readiness of composition ; for he has " written more than three hundred comedies . His " name alone gave reputation to his pieces ; for his re- " putation was so well established , that a work ...
... beauty of conception , and " a wonderful readiness of composition ; for he has " written more than three hundred comedies . His " name alone gave reputation to his pieces ; for his re- " putation was so well established , that a work ...
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... beauty , as there is a common understanding in all times and places , which is never obsolete ; but there is another kind of beauty , such as we are now treating , which depends upon times and places , and is therefore changeable . Such ...
... beauty , as there is a common understanding in all times and places , which is never obsolete ; but there is another kind of beauty , such as we are now treating , which depends upon times and places , and is therefore changeable . Such ...
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... beauty to its real value more or less in every age ; or , if we must pass judgment upon it , let us say that these touches in Aristophanes , Menander , and Moliere , were well struck off in their own time ; but , that comparing them ...
... beauty to its real value more or less in every age ; or , if we must pass judgment upon it , let us say that these touches in Aristophanes , Menander , and Moliere , were well struck off in their own time ; but , that comparing them ...
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... beauty , which had not sufficient foundation in truth , and therefore the taste changed . But , if we condemn those ages for this , what age shall we spare ? Let us refer every thing to permanent and universal taste , and we shall find ...
... beauty , which had not sufficient foundation in truth , and therefore the taste changed . But , if we condemn those ages for this , what age shall we spare ? Let us refer every thing to permanent and universal taste , and we shall find ...
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... beauty , of easy gaiety , whose features are rather delicate than striking , rather soft than strong , rather plain and modest than great and haughty , but always perfectly natural . Ce n'est pas un portrait , une image semblable : C ...
... beauty , of easy gaiety , whose features are rather delicate than striking , rather soft than strong , rather plain and modest than great and haughty , but always perfectly natural . Ce n'est pas un portrait , une image semblable : C ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ADVENTURER amuse ancient appear Aristophanes Athenians Athens Banquo beauty Cawdor censure CHAP character comedy comic common considered Cratinus delight desire died hereafter discovered easily elegance endeavoured equally Euripides evil expected eyes favour fear felicity folly fortune gain genius give golden blood gratified Greek comedy happiness honour hope hour human imagine Imlac kind king knowledge labour lady learned less likewise live look Macbeth mankind manner Menander ment mind misery Moliere murder nature Nekayah ness never NOTE observed once opinion passage passed passions Pekuah perfect spy perhaps phanes Plautus pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present prince princess racter Rasselas reader reason rest scarcely SCENE sense sentiments Shakespeare shew Socrates solitude sometimes suffered supposed surely taste Terence thee Theocritus thing thou thought Tibullus tion tragedy truth ulmo virtue witchcraft witches writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 126 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Seite 113 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear.
Seite 295 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia.
Seite 97 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate.
Seite 103 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Seite 323 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refine•icnt.
Seite 96 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Seite 310 - Sir, said he, you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic sciences can perform. I have been long of opinion, that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
Seite 312 - ... easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would see the earth, and all its inhabitants, rolling beneath him, and presenting to him successively, by its diurnal motion, all the countries within the same parallel. How must it amuse the...
Seite 415 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.