The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a col- lege , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious employment . No man needs to * Barnesii Anacreontem . Dr. J. be ...
... Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a col- lege , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious employment . No man needs to * Barnesii Anacreontem . Dr. J. be ...
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... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
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... Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus top , where thou Sitt'st to behold thy sacred show , If in Alpheus ...
... Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus top , where thou Sitt'st to behold thy sacred show , If in Alpheus ...
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... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban Bard were to his ...
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban Bard were to his ...
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... Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill - repre- sented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if ...
... Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what Antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at least see that they are ill - repre- sented by such puny poetry ; and all will determine that if ...
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Seite 93 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 417 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Seite 77 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Seite 98 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Seite 154 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Seite 22 - 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 174 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Seite 21 - 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 astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Seite 104 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Seite 437 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.