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Common terms and phrasesÆsop amuse ancient appear Aristophanes Athenians Athens Banquo beauty Cairo censure CHAP character comedy comick considered danger delight desire died hereafter discovered domestick easily elegance endeavoured equally Eupolis Euripides evil expected eyes fame favour fear felicity fense folly fortune genius give gratified Greek Greek comedy happiness happy valley honour hope hour human imagine Imlac kayah kind knowledge labour learned less likewise live look Macbeth mankind manner Menander ment mind misery Moliere nations nature Nekayah ness never Numb observed once opinion passage passed passions Pekuah perhaps phanes Plato Plautus pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present prince princess publick racter Rasselas reason ridicule scarcely scene sentiments Shakespeare shew Socrates solitude sometimes Sophocles suffered supposed surely taste Terence thing thou thought tion tragedy tragick truth virtue weary witches writers Popular passagesPage 100 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate. Page 411 - ... by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all the elemental powers, have hitherto refused my authority, and multitudes have perished by equinoctial tempests which I found myself unable to prohibit or restrain. Page 116 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood. Page 107 - Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them ; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings... Page 302 - The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds. Page 95 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle. Page 326 - I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Page 315 - But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Page 311 - ... powers, who had contrived many engines both of use and recreation. By a wheel, which the stream turned, he forced the water into a tower, whence it was distributed to all the apartments of the palace. He erected a pavilion in the garden, around which he kept the air always cool by artificial showers. Page 436 - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarSamuel Johnson's Breakdown and Recovery in Middle-Age: A Life Span ...Peter, M Newton - 1984 - International Review of Psycho-Analysis The Changing Theological Context of Economic Analysis since the ...AMC Waterman - History of Political Economy Seventeenth-Century Jurisprudence and Eighteenth-Century ...John Stone - 1996 - Sederi References from web pagesThe Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson at Questia Online ... Johnson - Lives of the English Poets Project Gutenberg Edition of Lives of the English Poets: Waller ... Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets - Wikipedia, the free ... Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed ... Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley by Samuel ... The Lives of the Poets, or “Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ... Free Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Authors ... Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson - INTRODUCTION. Jennifer Ellis Snead - The Mind in Motion - The Eighteenth Century ... Bibliographic information
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