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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... less carefully fup- pressed , the omiffion of his name in the regifter of St. Dunstan's parish gives reason to suspect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to ...
... less carefully fup- pressed , the omiffion of his name in the regifter of St. Dunstan's parish gives reason to suspect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to ...
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... less than hanging . Another misfortune has been , " and stranger than all the rest , that you have broke " your word with me , and failed to come , even " though you told Mr. Bois that you would . This " is what they call Monftri fimile ...
... less than hanging . Another misfortune has been , " and stranger than all the rest , that you have broke " your word with me , and failed to come , even " though you told Mr. Bois that you would . This " is what they call Monftri fimile ...
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... less copiousness of sentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been re- commended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jon- son ...
... less copiousness of sentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been re- commended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jon- son ...
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... less , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts . That a Mistress beloved is fairer in idea than in reality , is by Cowley thus expreffed : Thou in my fancy dost much higher stand , Than woman can be plac'd by Nature's hand ; And I ...
... less , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts . That a Mistress beloved is fairer in idea than in reality , is by Cowley thus expreffed : Thou in my fancy dost much higher stand , Than woman can be plac'd by Nature's hand ; And I ...
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... less limitation , when it is affirmed of Cowley , than perhaps of any other poet . - He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own he His COWLEY . 61 unless it be poffible to describe by ...
... less limitation , when it is affirmed of Cowley , than perhaps of any other poet . - He read much , and yet borrowed little . His character of writing was indeed not his own he His COWLEY . 61 unless it be poffible to describe by ...
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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.