The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poetsW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 |
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... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for some time ; and Mr. Walpole , June 10 , 1715 , moved for an impeachment against him . What made him so acrimonious does not appear he was by nature no thirster for blood ...
... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for some time ; and Mr. Walpole , June 10 , 1715 , moved for an impeachment against him . What made him so acrimonious does not appear he was by nature no thirster for blood ...
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... . His diligence has justly placed him amongst the most correct of the English poets ; and he was one of the first that resolutely endeavoured at correctness . He never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in c 2 PRIOR . 19.
... . His diligence has justly placed him amongst the most correct of the English poets ; and he was one of the first that resolutely endeavoured at correctness . He never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in c 2 PRIOR . 19.
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... endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or pas- sion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is ...
... endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or pas- sion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is ...
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... endeavoured to gain , at least , one friend , and propitiated Congreve by higher praise of his Mourning Bride than it has obtained from any other critick . The same year he published a Satire on Wit , a pro- clamation of defiance which ...
... endeavoured to gain , at least , one friend , and propitiated Congreve by higher praise of his Mourning Bride than it has obtained from any other critick . The same year he published a Satire on Wit , a pro- clamation of defiance which ...
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Samuel Johnson Francis Pearson Walesby. tises by which he has endeavoured to diffuse the art of heal- ing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught his reader how to oppose . He has written on the ...
Samuel Johnson Francis Pearson Walesby. tises by which he has endeavoured to diffuse the art of heal- ing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught his reader how to oppose . He has written on the ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character Cibber contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden duke Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination kind king known labour lady learning letter lines lived lord lord Halifax Lyttelton ment mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once Oxford passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present printed publick published queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation satire Savage says seems sent sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Theophilus Cibber thing Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue Westminster Abbey whigs write written wrote Young
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Страница 346 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...
Страница 295 - As fruits ungrateful to the planter's care, On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear, The surest virtues thus from passions shoot. Wild nature's vigour working at the root. What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen, from obstinacy, hate, or fear ! See anger zeal and fortitude supply ; E'en avarice prudence, sloth philosophy ; Lust, through some certain strainers well refin'd, Is gentle love, and charms all womankind; Envy, to which th...
Страница 262 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Страница 257 - Iliad." It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning.
Страница 321 - These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied diligence; he had recourse to every source of intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained.
Страница 378 - Liberty," when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon desisted. I have never tried again, and therefore will not hazard either praise or censure. The highest praise which he has received ought not to be suppressed : it is said by Lord Lyttelton, in the Prologue to his posthumous play, that his works contained No line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
Страница 160 - He lodged as much by accident as he dined, and passed the night sometimes in mean houses which are set open at night to any casual wanderers, sometimes in cellars, among the riot and filth of the meanest and most profligate of the rabble...
Страница 325 - Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller.
Страница 68 - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us ; and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice : but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve, who, after reading it over, said, ' It would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly...
Страница 291 - ... 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 glorified4. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else.