The works of Samuel Johnson, 6. kötetG. Offor, 1818 |
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16. oldal
... sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ...
... sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ...
17. oldal
... sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubt- edly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley ...
... sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubt- edly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley ...
18. oldal
... sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither impro- ved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fash- ionable style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton disdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not ...
... sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither impro- ved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fash- ionable style remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton disdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not ...
23. oldal
... sentiments slight and trifling . On an inconstant woman ; He enjoys the calmy sunshine now , And no breath stirring hears , In the clear heaven of thy brow , No smallest cloud appears . He sees thee gentle , fair , and gay , And trusts ...
... sentiments slight and trifling . On an inconstant woman ; He enjoys the calmy sunshine now , And no breath stirring hears , In the clear heaven of thy brow , No smallest cloud appears . He sees thee gentle , fair , and gay , And trusts ...
30. oldal
... sentiments of the metaphysi- cal poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Miscellanies contain a collection of short compo- sitions ...
... sentiments of the metaphysi- cal poets , it is now proper to examine particularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the last of that race , and undoubtedly the best . His Miscellanies contain a collection of short compo- sitions ...
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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.