The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... gave him at first some disturbance in the exercise of his jurisdiction ; but it was soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity , he was seldom in the wrong ; and that , when he was right , his spirit did not easily yield to ...
... gave him at first some disturbance in the exercise of his jurisdiction ; but it was soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity , he was seldom in the wrong ; and that , when he was right , his spirit did not easily yield to ...
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... gave the least pleasure was that which describes the Flying Island , and that which gave most dis- gust must be the history of the Houyhnhnms . While Swift was enjoying the reputation of his new work , the news of the king's death ...
... gave the least pleasure was that which describes the Flying Island , and that which gave most dis- gust must be the history of the Houyhnhnms . While Swift was enjoying the reputation of his new work , the news of the king's death ...
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... gave up herself to sorrowful resentment , and died under the tyranny of him , by whom she was in the highest degree loved and honoured . What were her claims to this eccentric tender- ness , by which the laws of nature were violated to ...
... gave up herself to sorrowful resentment , and died under the tyranny of him , by whom she was in the highest degree loved and honoured . What were her claims to this eccentric tender- ness , by which the laws of nature were violated to ...
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... gave copies , and is supposed to have felt no discontent when he saw them printed . His favourite maxim was , " Vive la " bagatelle : " he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to him- self . It ...
... gave copies , and is supposed to have felt no discontent when he saw them printed . His favourite maxim was , " Vive la " bagatelle : " he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to him- self . It ...
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... gave hopes of his recovery ; but in a few days he sunk into a lethargic stupi- dity , motionless , heedless , and speechless . But it is said , that after a year of total silence , when his house - keeper , on the 30th of November ...
... gave hopes of his recovery ; but in a few days he sunk into a lethargic stupi- dity , motionless , heedless , and speechless . But it is said , that after a year of total silence , when his house - keeper , on the 30th of November ...
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Aaron Hill Addison afterwards appears blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character copy criticism Curll death dedicated delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry Epistle epitaph Essay excellence expected fame father faults favour friendship genius Homer honour hope Iliad images Ireland kind King known labour lady learning Letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton Mallet Masque of Alfred ment mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers opinion Orrery passage perhaps persuaded Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced prose published racter reader reason reputation rhyme satire says seems shew shewn solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift tell thing Thomson tion told translation truth virtue Warburton Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young
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Seite 126 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself; but you express me better than I could express myself.
Seite 267 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy, and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Seite 178 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 184 - Bentley, who had purposely avoided saying any thing about Homer, pretended not to understand him, and asked, ' Books ! books ! what books ?' — ' My Homer,' replied Pope, ' which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer.
Seite 379 - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
Seite 388 - I have made public good the rule of my conduct. I never gave counsels which I did not at the time think the best. I have seen that I was sometimes in the wrong, but I did not err designedly. I have endeavoured, in private life, to do all the good in my power, and never for a moment could indulge malicious or unjust designs upon any person whatsoever.
Seite 236 - The great defect of The Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images and thoughts " both their lustre and their shade:" such as invest them with splendour, through...
Seite 284 - As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear : She will say 'twas a barbarous deed.
Seite 147 - Bolingbroke, however, was not yet satisfied ; his thirst of vengeance efccited him to blast the memory of the man over whom he had wept in his last struggles; and he employed Mallet, another friend of Pope, to tell the tale to the public with all its aggravations. Warburton, whose heart was warm with his legacy, and tender by the recent separation...
Seite 379 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.