Doctor Johnson: A Study in Eighteenth Century HumanismHarvard University Press, 1923 - 280 oldal |
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... fact becomes of more than usual interest to us when we consider that for over thirty years this middle class of England looked upon Johnson as its chief representative in the world of letters . It did not require many years after the ...
... fact becomes of more than usual interest to us when we consider that for over thirty years this middle class of England looked upon Johnson as its chief representative in the world of letters . It did not require many years after the ...
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... fact to strike the attention of anyone who considers the nature of Johnson's contribution to critical thought is his position as the last of a long line of classical scholars , who received their initial impulse in the revival of ...
... fact to strike the attention of anyone who considers the nature of Johnson's contribution to critical thought is his position as the last of a long line of classical scholars , who received their initial impulse in the revival of ...
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... fact to represent a calmer and more philosophical view of life ; the author's I. Nil ergo optabunt homines ? si consilium vis , Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus , quid Conveniat nobis , rebusque sit utile nostris . - Lines 346–348 ...
... fact to represent a calmer and more philosophical view of life ; the author's I. Nil ergo optabunt homines ? si consilium vis , Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus , quid Conveniat nobis , rebusque sit utile nostris . - Lines 346–348 ...
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... fact that he was in the habit of passing his critical decrees somewhat arbitrarily , we have before us a situation full of pitfalls for the unwary . Some discussion , of a general nature , of what he has said of the critics of other ...
... fact that he was in the habit of passing his critical decrees somewhat arbitrarily , we have before us a situation full of pitfalls for the unwary . Some discussion , of a general nature , of what he has said of the critics of other ...
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... fact as well as in name . But in a general way the con- ditions for literary development were similar ; and just as fixed standards and an orderly progress toward the establishment of certain literary doctrines were realized in one ...
... fact as well as in name . But in a general way the con- ditions for literary development were similar ; and just as fixed standards and an orderly progress toward the establishment of certain literary doctrines were realized in one ...
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107. oldal - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
203. 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.
136. oldal - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination, and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveler is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend...
157. oldal - A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good because it is a just representation of the common events of human life: but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded that the observation of justice makes a play worse; or that if other excellencies are equal the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue.
71. oldal - The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new-name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments.
134. oldal - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
138. oldal - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation. If the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
37. oldal - Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
76. oldal - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
65. oldal - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied.