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... Pope's brilliant Imitations of Horace . Such a per- formance was of course purely academic , and in John- son's case , as in many another , it served only as a kind of test of his right to recognition in the literary world . ' No man ...
... Pope's brilliant Imitations of Horace . Such a per- formance was of course purely academic , and in John- son's case , as in many another , it served only as a kind of test of his right to recognition in the literary world . ' No man ...
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... Pope , Gray , Cow- per , and above all , Walpole , have become classics of epistolary art . Few would think of Johnson in this connection . To be sure , his letters are not , in the same sense as the others , literary ' ; they are ...
... Pope , Gray , Cow- per , and above all , Walpole , have become classics of epistolary art . Few would think of Johnson in this connection . To be sure , his letters are not , in the same sense as the others , literary ' ; they are ...
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... Pope's Essay on Criticism . Yet his Essays and Lives reiterate again and again his suspicion of the petty prescrip- tionist who measures every work by a neat outfit of rules , but whose mind is too small to comprehend in any degree the ...
... Pope's Essay on Criticism . Yet his Essays and Lives reiterate again and again his suspicion of the petty prescrip- tionist who measures every work by a neat outfit of rules , but whose mind is too small to comprehend in any degree the ...
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... 3 Lives 1. 194 ( Milton ) . 5 Lives 3. 395 ( Young ) . 6 2 Lives 3. 273 ( Pope ) . 4 Lives 1. 319 ( J. Phillips ) . 6 Lives 3. 299 ( Thomson ) . 1 verse was much influenced by listening almost daily to INTRODUCTION xxix.
... 3 Lives 1. 194 ( Milton ) . 5 Lives 3. 395 ( Young ) . 6 2 Lives 3. 273 ( Pope ) . 4 Lives 1. 319 ( J. Phillips ) . 6 Lives 3. 299 ( Thomson ) . 1 verse was much influenced by listening almost daily to INTRODUCTION xxix.
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... traits of Johnson's manner , but even in the hands of Gibbon and Miss Burney it is only the cold , un- Lives 1. 192 ( Milton ) ; 3. 231 ( Pope ) . crumbled cinder of the original . With his usual scorn XXX INTRODUCTION.
... traits of Johnson's manner , but even in the hands of Gibbon and Miss Burney it is only the cold , un- Lives 1. 192 ( Milton ) ; 3. 231 ( Pope ) . crumbled cinder of the original . With his usual scorn XXX INTRODUCTION.
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Seite 26 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Seite 396 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 27 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? 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 434 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Seite 471 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Seite 363 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 409 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Seite 27 - 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. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 23 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Seite 58 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.