The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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Sayfa 21
... better man in " England . " He is reprefented by Dr. Sprat as the moft amiable of mankind ; and this pofthumous praise may fafely be credited , as it has never been contra- dicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and ...
... better man in " England . " He is reprefented by Dr. Sprat as the moft amiable of mankind ; and this pofthumous praise may fafely be credited , as it has never been contra- dicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and ...
Sayfa 22
... better than of the car ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the father of criticifin has rightly denominated poetry xnn , an imitative art , thefe writers will ...
... better than of the car ; for the modulation was fo imperfect , that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables . If the father of criticifin has rightly denominated poetry xnn , an imitative art , thefe writers will ...
Sayfa 39
... better tafte ; If it take air before , its fpirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife that stays at home , with a pair of com- paffes , it may be doubted whether abfurdity or inge- nuity has the better ...
... better tafte ; If it take air before , its fpirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife that stays at home , with a pair of com- paffes , it may be doubted whether abfurdity or inge- nuity has the better ...
Sayfa 78
... better way , but has not purfued it with great fuccefs . His verfions of Virgil are not pleafing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of profe , nor the ...
... better way , but has not purfued it with great fuccefs . His verfions of Virgil are not pleafing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of profe , nor the ...
Sayfa 88
... better to prefer a blameless filence before the office of speak- ing , bought and begun with fervitude and for- fwearing . " << 66 66 Thefe expreffions are , I find , applied to the fubfcrip- tion of the Articles ; but it feems more ...
... better to prefer a blameless filence before the office of speak- ing , bought and begun with fervitude and for- fwearing . " << 66 66 Thefe expreffions are , I find , applied to the fubfcrip- tion of the Articles ; but it feems more ...
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Sayfa 146 - 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.
Sayfa 382 - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Sayfa 395 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Sayfa 22 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Sayfa 165 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Sayfa 57 - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Sayfa 132 - that though our author had daily about him one or other to read, some persons of man's estate, who, of their own accord, greedily catched at the opportunity of being his readers, that they might as well reap the benefit of what they read to him, as oblige him by the benefit of their reading ; and others of younger years were sent by their parents to the same end...
Sayfa 174 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Sayfa 314 - Latin proverb, were not always the least happy; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other, and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man.
Sayfa 146 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.