The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 10Nichols, 1816 |
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Seite 114 - broken metaphor, of which notice may properly be taken: Fir'd with that name — I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain. To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled? because she longs to launch; an act which was never hindered
Seite 118 - thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here
Seite 238 - might make. Gay was inclined to try at such " a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it " would be better to write a comedy on the same " plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's " Opera. He began on it; and when first he men" tioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like
Seite 393 - those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. END OF THE TENTH VOLUME.
Seite 238 - had been observing once to Mr. Gay, " what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pas" toral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such " a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it " would be better to write a comedy on the same " plan. This was what gave rise to The
Seite 189 - the wise and the pious caught the alarm; and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the publick charge. Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist or fly. Dryden's conscience, or his prudence, angry as he was, withheld him from the conflict:
Seite 108 - I have found in any other man. But this was " only when familiar: before strangers, or, perhaps, " a single stranger, he preserved his dignity by a " stiff silence." This modesty was by no means inconsistent with a very high opinion of his own merit. He demanded to be the first name in modern wit
Seite 68 - to this character, which is apparently given with the fondness of a friend, may be added the testimony of Pope, who says in a letter to Blount, " Mr. Rowe accompanied me, and passed a week " in the Forest. I need not tell you how much a " man of his turn entertained me ; but I must
Seite 106 - As the process of these narratives is now bringing me among my contemporaries, I begin to feel myself " walking upon ashes under which the fire is not " extinguished," and coming to the time of which it will be proper rather to say " nothing that is " false, than all that is true.
Seite 139 - who, considering the fundamental position of his criticism, that Chevy-Chase pleases, and ought to please, because it is natural, observes, " that there " is a way of deviating from nature, by bombast or " tumour, which soars above nature, and enlarges " images beyond their real bulk; by affectation, " which forsakes nature in quest of something