The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... never could bring it to retain the ordi- nary rules of grammar . ” This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
... never could bring it to retain the ordi- nary rules of grammar . ” This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
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... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes in- vited , and sometimes ...
... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes in- vited , and sometimes ...
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... never attained , nor never sought it ; for they en- deavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erro- neous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and ...
... never attained , nor never sought it ; for they en- deavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erro- neous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and ...
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... never been said before . Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden ...
... never been said before . Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden ...
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... never moved ; we are sometimes sur- prised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still however it is the work of Cowley , of a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general ...
... never moved ; we are sometimes sur- prised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , but little to approve . Still however it is the work of Cowley , of a mind capacious by nature , and replenished by study . In the general ...
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Seite 360 - 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 61 - 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 93 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not...
Seite 60 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of...
Seite 252 - To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Seite 331 - Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Seite 24 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat.
Seite 17 - A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All, So doth each teare, Which thee doth weare, A globe, yea world by that impression grow, Till thy teares mixt with mine doe overflow This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
Seite 14 - 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 101 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...