The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute oc- currences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting whatever he observed ; for such a number of ...
... performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute oc- currences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting whatever he observed ; for such a number of ...
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... performances by many revisals ; after which the old gentleman , when he was satisfied , would say , " these are good rhymes . " In his perusal of the English poets he soon distin- guished the versification of Dryden , which he con ...
... performances by many revisals ; after which the old gentleman , when he was satisfied , would say , " these are good rhymes . " In his perusal of the English poets he soon distin- guished the versification of Dryden , which he con ...
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... performances at the same age . His time was now wholly spent in reading and writing . As he read the classics , he amused him- self with translating them ; and at fourteen made a version of the first book of the " Thebais , " which ...
... performances at the same age . His time was now wholly spent in reading and writing . As he read the classics , he amused him- self with translating them ; and at fourteen made a version of the first book of the " Thebais , " which ...
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... performances received no improvement from his maturer studies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wy- cherly , a man who seems to have had among his contemporaries his full share of reputation , to have 1 been esteemed without ...
... performances received no improvement from his maturer studies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wy- cherly , a man who seems to have had among his contemporaries his full share of reputation , to have 1 been esteemed without ...
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... performances to Pope , who did not forbear such remarks as were now - and - then unwelcome . Pope , in his turn , put the juvenile version of " Statius " into his hands for correction . Their correspondence afforded the public its first ...
... performances to Pope , who did not forbear such remarks as were now - and - then unwelcome . Pope , in his turn , put the juvenile version of " Statius " into his hands for correction . Their correspondence afforded the public its first ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aaron Hill Addison afterwards appears blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character copy criticism Curll death dedicated delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry Epistle epitaph Essay excellence expected fame father faults favour friendship genius Homer honour hope Iliad images Ireland kind King known labour lady learning Letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton Mallet Masque of Alfred ment mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers opinion Orrery passage perhaps persuaded Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced prose published racter reader reason reputation rhyme satire says seems shew shewn solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift tell thing Thomson tion told translation truth virtue Warburton Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 126 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself; but you express me better than I could express myself.
Seite 267 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy, and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Seite 178 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 184 - Bentley, who had purposely avoided saying any thing about Homer, pretended not to understand him, and asked, ' Books ! books ! what books ?' — ' My Homer,' replied Pope, ' which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer.
Seite 379 - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
Seite 388 - I have made public good the rule of my conduct. I never gave counsels which I did not at the time think the best. I have seen that I was sometimes in the wrong, but I did not err designedly. I have endeavoured, in private life, to do all the good in my power, and never for a moment could indulge malicious or unjust designs upon any person whatsoever.
Seite 236 - The great defect of The Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images and thoughts " both their lustre and their shade:" such as invest them with splendour, through...
Seite 284 - As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear : She will say 'twas a barbarous deed.
Seite 147 - Bolingbroke, however, was not yet satisfied ; his thirst of vengeance efccited him to blast the memory of the man over whom he had wept in his last struggles; and he employed Mallet, another friend of Pope, to tell the tale to the public with all its aggravations. Warburton, whose heart was warm with his legacy, and tender by the recent separation...
Seite 379 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.