The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's LifeDavid Allinson, 1816 - 140 Seiten |
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... mankind , by your address , and could not forbear to wish that I might boast my- self Le vainquier du vainquier de la terre , that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little ...
... mankind , by your address , and could not forbear to wish that I might boast my- self Le vainquier du vainquier de la terre , that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little ...
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... mankind would have united to extol his extraor- dinary memory - His manner of repeating , de- serves to be described , though at the same time it defeats all power of description ; but whoever once heard him repeat an ode of Horace ...
... mankind would have united to extol his extraor- dinary memory - His manner of repeating , de- serves to be described , though at the same time it defeats all power of description ; but whoever once heard him repeat an ode of Horace ...
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... mankind : in apology for him it may be admitted , that he was attached to tory principles , and that most of what he wrote on political subjects was conformable to his real sentiments : Mr. Murphy observes , that Johnson's political ...
... mankind : in apology for him it may be admitted , that he was attached to tory principles , and that most of what he wrote on political subjects was conformable to his real sentiments : Mr. Murphy observes , that Johnson's political ...
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... mankind to rule , He has like Titian form'd his brilliant school , And taught congenial spirits to excel , While from his lips impressive wisdom fell . ' As a poet , the merit of Johnson , though con- siderable , yet falls short of that ...
... mankind to rule , He has like Titian form'd his brilliant school , And taught congenial spirits to excel , While from his lips impressive wisdom fell . ' As a poet , the merit of Johnson , though con- siderable , yet falls short of that ...
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... mankind , from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil , each eager strife , And watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say , how hope and fear , desire and hate , O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate : Where wav'ring ...
... mankind , from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil , each eager strife , And watch the busy scenes of crowded life ; Then say , how hope and fear , desire and hate , O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate : Where wav'ring ...
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Seite 25 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Seite 24 - When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Seite 87 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Seite 64 - On Thames's banks in silent thought we stood, Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood; Struck with the seat that gave Eliza birth, We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth; In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view: Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce and the dread of Spain, Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, Or English honour grew a standing jest.
Seite 74 - observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Seite 118 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Seite 68 - With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter, ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. * How, when competitors, like these, contend, Can surly virtue hope to fix a friend...
Seite 109 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish poured his groan, And lonely want retired to die.
Seite 82 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Seite 24 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...