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 7
... of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe . torick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : B 4 " The “ " The Scotch treaty , " says he , COWLEY . 7.
... of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe . torick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : B 4 " The “ " The Scotch treaty , " says he , COWLEY . 7.
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... passage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eye on . It is faid , that king Charles 1. and Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with passages ...
... passage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eye on . It is faid , that king Charles 1. and Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with passages ...
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... passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator , The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth ...
... passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator , The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth ...
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... passage he starts a fudden question to the confufion of philosophy : Ye learned heads , whom ivy garlands grace , Why does that twining plant the oak embrace ; The oak for courtship most of all unfit , And rough as are the winds that ...
... passage he starts a fudden question to the confufion of philosophy : Ye learned heads , whom ivy garlands grace , Why does that twining plant the oak embrace ; The oak for courtship most of all unfit , And rough as are the winds that ...
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... passages that can be properly com- pared , I remember only the description of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is fuffi- ciently difcernible . Cowley's is scarcely defcription , unless unless it be poffible to ...
... passages that can be properly com- pared , I remember only the description of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is fuffi- ciently difcernible . Cowley's is scarcely defcription , unless unless it be poffible to ...
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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.