The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 - English literature |
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... excellence , and confessed his love . The effect of the publication upon the dean and Stella is thus related by Delany : " I have good reason to believe that they both were greatly shocked and distressed , though it may be differently ...
... excellence , and confessed his love . The effect of the publication upon the dean and Stella is thus related by Delany : " I have good reason to believe that they both were greatly shocked and distressed , though it may be differently ...
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... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under C. In Lombard - street , according to Dr. Warton . This weakness was so great , that he constantly ...
... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under C. In Lombard - street , according to Dr. Warton . This weakness was so great , that he constantly ...
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... excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revisals ; after which , the old gentleman ...
... excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revisals ; after which , the old gentleman ...
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... excellence . Those performances which strike with wonder are combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty : and it is not likely that any felicity like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents should happen twice to the ...
... excellence . Those performances which strike with wonder are combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty : and it is not likely that any felicity like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents should happen twice to the ...
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... excellence and diffi- culty of this great work , it must be very desirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to cor- rectness . Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarely been ...
... excellence and diffi- culty of this great work , it must be very desirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to cor- rectness . Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarely been ...
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Page 80 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 127 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted...
Page 123 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 117 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Page 160 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it. These clouds which he perceived gathering on his intellects, he endeavoured to disperse by travel, and passed into France : but found himself constrained to yield to his malady, and returned.
Page 165 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Page 50 - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
Page 226 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Page 221 - ... men are very prone to believe what they do not understand; fourthly, they will believe any thing at all, provided they are under no obligation to believe it...
Page 66 - This gave Mr. Pope the thought that he had now some opportunity of doing good, by detecting and dragging into light these common enemies of mankind; since, to invalidate this universal slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible men were the authors of it.