The works of Samuel Johnson, 6. kötetG. Offor, 1818 |
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17. oldal
... knowledge may be sometimes found buried perhaps in grossness of expres- sion , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
... knowledge may be sometimes found buried perhaps in grossness of expres- sion , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
18. oldal
... Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples ...
... Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples ...
32. oldal
... knowledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived , and happily expressed ...
... knowledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived , and happily expressed ...
34. oldal
... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtley nor ...
... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtley nor ...
40. oldal
... knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and of- ten striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the noblest conceptions the ...
... knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and of- ten striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the noblest conceptions the ...
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312. oldal - 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.
51. oldal - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
60. oldal - 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...
305. oldal - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
117. oldal - 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.
31. oldal - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
23. oldal - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
172. oldal - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
117. oldal - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
18. oldal - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.