Johnson's Life of Dryden [ed.] by P. PetersonMacmillan and Company, 1899 - 185 oldal |
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... says , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might seem a constellation . At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical distinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictitious ...
... says , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might seem a constellation . At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical distinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictitious ...
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... say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has made any difficulty of assigning to Death a dart 20 and the power of striking ? In settling the order of his works ...
... say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has made any difficulty of assigning to Death a dart 20 and the power of striking ? In settling the order of his works ...
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... says he , " I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin proverb , were not ...
... says he , " I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin proverb , were not ...
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... says , " To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild a storm . Conform a smile to lightning , make a smile ...
... says , " To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild a storm . Conform a smile to lightning , make a smile ...
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... say thus : I will make my counterfeit smiles look like a flattering stone - horse , which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am mistaken if nonsense is not here pretty thick sown . Sure the poet writ these two ...
... say thus : I will make my counterfeit smiles look like a flattering stone - horse , which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am mistaken if nonsense is not here pretty thick sown . Sure the poet writ these two ...
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116. oldal - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
145. oldal - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'cr-informed the tenement of clay.
80. oldal - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 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.
116. oldal - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
152. oldal - The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day...
85. oldal - A slimy-born and sun-begotten tribe ; Who far from steeples and their sacred sound, In fields their sullen conventicles found. These gross, half-animated lumps I leave ; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire : Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay ; So drossy, so divisible are they, 319 As would but serve pure bodies for allay...
95. oldal - When he describes the Supreme Being as moved by prayer to stop the Fire of London, what is his expression? A hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmamental waters dipt above, Of it a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove.
177. oldal - Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Adored their fathers...
47. oldal - ... suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled.
40. oldal - The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage...