The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, 9. kötetLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His ...
... writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyrick . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His ...
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... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master 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 ...
... write for what Cowley might have learned from his master 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 ...
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... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the ... writing when the feuds of the civil war . were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was ...
... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the ... writing when the feuds of the civil war . were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was ...
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... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the ...
... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the ...
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... write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphy- sical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ...
... write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphy- sical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ...
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93. oldal - ... 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.
417. 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.
77. 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...
98. oldal - 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.
154. 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.
22. oldal - 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.
174. oldal - 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.
21. oldal - 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.
104. oldal - 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.
437. oldal - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.