The works of Samuel Johnson, 6. kötetG. Offor, 1818 |
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10. oldal
... 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 ...
14. oldal
... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew ...
... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew ...
31. oldal
... poems , he has forgotten or neglect- ed to name his heroes . In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample deline- ation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such ...
... poems , he has forgotten or neglect- ed to name his heroes . In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion ; a very just and ample deline- ation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such ...
40. oldal
... poem * on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Anglicana . Pindarism prevailed about half a century ; but at last died gradually away , and other imitations supply ...
... poem * on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musa Anglicana . Pindarism prevailed about half a century ; but at last died gradually away , and other imitations supply ...
47. oldal
... poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squander- ed . Attention has no relief ; the affections are never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delight- ed , and ...
... poem . In the perusal of the Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably squander- ed . Attention has no relief ; the affections are never moved ; we are sometimes surprised , but never delight- ed , and ...
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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.