The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poetsT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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Page 40
... easy and natural ; and the con- clufion , though a little weakened by the intrusion of Alexander , is elegant and forcible . It may be remarked , that in this Elegy , and in most of his encomiaftick poems , he has forgotten or neglected ...
... easy and natural ; and the con- clufion , though a little weakened by the intrusion of Alexander , is elegant and forcible . It may be remarked , that in this Elegy , and in most of his encomiaftick poems , he has forgotten or neglected ...
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... easy to reconcile the poet with the cri- tick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to profe . This lax and lawless ...
... easy to reconcile the poet with the cri- tick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to profe . This lax and lawless ...
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... easy without feebleness , and familiar without groff- nefs . It has been observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Clafficks , that Cowley was beloved by every Muse that he courted ; and that he has rivalled the Ancients in every kind of ...
... easy without feebleness , and familiar without groff- nefs . It has been observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Clafficks , that Cowley was beloved by every Muse that he courted ; and that he has rivalled the Ancients in every kind of ...
Page 115
... easy , nor poffible , but with more skilful and attentive help than can be commonly obtained ; and it was probably the difficulty of confulting and comparing that stopped Milton's narrative at the Conquest ; a period at which * The ...
... easy , nor poffible , but with more skilful and attentive help than can be commonly obtained ; and it was probably the difficulty of confulting and comparing that stopped Milton's narrative at the Conquest ; a period at which * The ...
Page 121
... easy way to establish a Free Commonwealth ; which was , however , enough confidered to be both ferioufly and ludicroufly anfwered . The obstinate enthusiasm of the commonwealthmen was very remarkable . When the King was ap- parently ...
... easy way to establish a Free Commonwealth ; which was , however , enough confidered to be both ferioufly and ludicroufly anfwered . The obstinate enthusiasm of the commonwealthmen was very remarkable . When the King was ap- parently ...
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Page 73 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 264 - While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear : When to the beeches I report my flame, They bow their heads, as if they felt the same. To gods appealing, when I reach their bowers, With loud complaints they answer me in showers. To thee a wild and cruel soul is given, More deaf than trees, and prouder than the Heaven ! On the head of a stag...
Page 34 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 92 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Page 150 - We drove a field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten...
Page 24 - Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope? Though God be our true glass, through which we see All, since the being of all things is He, Yet are the trunks, which do to us derive Things, in proportion fit, by perspective Deeds of good men ; for by their living here, Virtues, indeed remote, seem to be near.
Page 271 - The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.