The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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Pagina 11
... occafion the Virgilian lots * , and to have given fome credit to the answer of his oracle . Some * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgiliana , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circum ...
... occafion the Virgilian lots * , and to have given fome credit to the answer of his oracle . Some * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgiliana , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circum ...
Pagina 13
... occafion of giving notice " of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was feized by fome meffengers of the ufurping powers , who were fent out in queft of another man ; and being exa- mined , was ...
... occafion of giving notice " of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was feized by fome meffengers of the ufurping powers , who were fent out in queft of another man ; and being exa- mined , was ...
Pagina 24
... occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the ac- tions of men ...
... occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the ac- tions of men ...
Pagina 103
... occafion of his adverfaries " calling him pedagogue and fchool - mafter ; whereas " it is well known he never fet up for a publick school , " to teach all the young fry of a parish ; but only was willing to impart his learning and ...
... occafion of his adverfaries " calling him pedagogue and fchool - mafter ; whereas " it is well known he never fet up for a publick school , " to teach all the young fry of a parish ; but only was willing to impart his learning and ...
Pagina 163
... occafion required . Thus comparing the fhield of Satan to the orb of the Moon , he crouds the imagina- tion with the difcovery of the telescope , and all the wonders which the telescope difcovers . Of his moral fentiments it is hardly ...
... occafion required . Thus comparing the fhield of Satan to the orb of the Moon , he crouds the imagina- tion with the difcovery of the telescope , and all the wonders which the telescope difcovers . Of his moral fentiments it is hardly ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 146 - In this Poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Pagina 382 - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Pagina 395 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Pagina 22 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Pagina 165 - 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.
Pagina 57 - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Pagina 132 - that though our author had daily about him one or other to read, some persons of man's estate, who, of their own accord, greedily catched at the opportunity of being his readers, that they might as well reap the benefit of what they read to him, as oblige him by the benefit of their reading ; and others of younger years were sent by their parents to the same end...
Pagina 174 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Pagina 314 - Latin proverb, were not always the least happy; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other, and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man.
Pagina 146 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.