The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Alexander V. Blake, 1840 |
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... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . Cowley . to adorn . Dryden's night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To ...
... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . Cowley . to adorn . Dryden's night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To ...
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... known wealth was so great that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epis gram of Grotius on the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but think ...
... known wealth was so great that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last lines have such resemblance to the noble epis gram of Grotius on the death of Scaliger , that I cannot but think ...
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... known . His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform ance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " Cooper's Hill " is the work that confers upon him the rank and ...
... known . His poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform ance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " Cooper's Hill " is the work that confers upon him the rank and ...
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... known to have published any thing afterward till the King's death , when , finding his murderers condemned by the presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to jus- tify it , and to compose the minds of the people . whose doctrine he considers ...
... known to have published any thing afterward till the King's death , when , finding his murderers condemned by the presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to jus- tify it , and to compose the minds of the people . whose doctrine he considers ...
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... known transformation : The first reply to Milton's " Defensio Populi ' was published in 1651 , called " Apologia pro Rege et Populo Anglicano , contra Johannis Polypragmatici ( alias Miltoni ) defensionem de- structivam Regis et Populi ...
... known transformation : The first reply to Milton's " Defensio Populi ' was published in 1651 , called " Apologia pro Rege et Populo Anglicano , contra Johannis Polypragmatici ( alias Miltoni ) defensionem de- structivam Regis et Populi ...
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Page 275 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Page 279 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 96 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Page 148 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 8 - ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before.
Page 21 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection, or incidental meditation.
Page 46 - He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hinderance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. 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.
Page 211 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 252 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...
Page 111 - Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind.