The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 9. köideG. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remem- bered , and perhaps sometimes ... relate , " that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ...
... relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remem- bered , and perhaps sometimes ... relate , " that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ...
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... relates , " complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created doctor of physic ; which being done to his mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of ...
... relates , " complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created doctor of physic ; which being done to his mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of ...
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... relates , with great luxuriance , the compensation which the pleasures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were acted by academicks . He went to the university with a design of enter ing into the ...
... relates , with great luxuriance , the compensation which the pleasures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were acted by academicks . He went to the university with a design of enter ing into the ...
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... relates , " having for a month led a philosophick life , after having been used at home to a great house , and much company and joviality , her friends , possibly by her own desire , made earnest suit to have her company the remaining ...
... relates , " having for a month led a philosophick life , after having been used at home to a great house , and much company and joviality , her friends , possibly by her own desire , made earnest suit to have her company the remaining ...
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... relates Lucifer's re- bellion and fall . ACT IV . Adam , } fallen , fallen , Eve , Conscience cites them to God's examination . Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . ACT V. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise . presented ...
... relates Lucifer's re- bellion and fall . ACT IV . Adam , } fallen , fallen , Eve , Conscience cites them to God's examination . Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . ACT V. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise . presented ...
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Page 173 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Page 417 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 2 - ... he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Page 173 - This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body.
Page 63 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 97 - ... wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 395 - There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves...
Page 418 - As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the news around, Through town and country, till the dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies at last...
Page 436 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 408 - These fight like husbands, but like lovers those : These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy...