The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
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... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , * seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , * seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
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... poetry Texvn mıμnlıun , an imitative art , these writers will without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the ...
... poetry Texvn mıμnlıun , an imitative art , these writers will without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the ...
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... poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; 14 COWLEY .
... poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; 14 COWLEY .
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... poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race , and ... poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best among many good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism ...
... poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race , and ... poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best among many good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism ...
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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...