The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . 2 It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet , 1 that " amendments are seldom made without ...
... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . 2 It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet , 1 that " amendments are seldom made without ...
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... allows , that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions the most honourable en- comiums . ' 99 1 1 See An Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
... allows , that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions the most honourable en- comiums . ' 99 1 1 See An Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
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... allow , that he never spared any asperity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . " 99 1 I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acri- monious and surly republican , ' - " a man who in his domestic relations was so severe ...
... allow , that he never spared any asperity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . " 99 1 I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acri- monious and surly republican , ' - " a man who in his domestic relations was so severe ...
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... allows them the high praise to which they are justly entitled . " The Universal Passion , " says he , " is indeed a very great per- formance , his distichs have the weight of solemn senti- ment , and his points the sharpness of ...
... allows them the high praise to which they are justly entitled . " The Universal Passion , " says he , " is indeed a very great per- formance , his distichs have the weight of solemn senti- ment , and his points the sharpness of ...
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... Allow me , with this offering , to infer from it a proof of the very great esteem with which I have the honour to profess myself , Sir , your , & c . , " WARREN HASTINGS . " " P.S. At some future time , and when you have no further ...
... Allow me , with this offering , to infer from it a proof of the very great esteem with which I have the honour to profess myself , Sir , your , & c . , " WARREN HASTINGS . " " P.S. At some future time , and when you have no further ...
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Page 306 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 9 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Page 222 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 51 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 59 - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them to the purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humor, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination.