The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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Samuel Johnson. a time to London , that he might study French and Italian , which , as he desired nothing more than to read them , were by diligent application soon dispatched . Of Italian learning he does not appear to have ever made ...
Samuel Johnson. a time to London , that he might study French and Italian , which , as he desired nothing more than to read them , were by diligent application soon dispatched . Of Italian learning he does not appear to have ever made ...
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... Italy ; a design which . Pope probably did not approve , as he did not follow it . Pope had now declared himself a poet ; and thinking himself entitled to poetical conversation , began at seventeen to frequent Will's , a coffee - house ...
... Italy ; a design which . Pope probably did not approve , as he did not follow it . Pope had now declared himself a poet ; and thinking himself entitled to poetical conversation , began at seventeen to frequent Will's , a coffee - house ...
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... Italians , who wrote in Latin , had been published at London , about the latter end of the last century by a * man who concealed his name , but whom his Preface shews to have been well qualified for his undertak- ing . This collection ...
... Italians , who wrote in Latin , had been published at London , about the latter end of the last century by a * man who concealed his name , but whom his Preface shews to have been well qualified for his undertak- ing . This collection ...
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... Italians have been very diligent translators ; but I can hear of no version , unless perhaps Angui- lara's Ovid may be excepted , which is read with eagerness . The " Iliad " of Salvini every reader may discover to be punctiliously ...
... Italians have been very diligent translators ; but I can hear of no version , unless perhaps Angui- lara's Ovid may be excepted , which is read with eagerness . The " Iliad " of Salvini every reader may discover to be punctiliously ...
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... Italy , of which however he abated the value , by trans- planting some of the lines into his Epistle to " Arbuthnot . ' About this time the act was passed for licensing plays , of which the first operation was the prohi- bition of ...
... Italy , of which however he abated the value , by trans- planting some of the lines into his Epistle to " Arbuthnot . ' About this time the act was passed for licensing plays , of which the first operation was the prohi- bition of ...
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Страница 178 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Страница 90 - 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 unnumber'd gild the glowing pole: O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales — the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Страница 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.
Страница 178 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Страница 236 - ... conversation extended his knowledge and opened his prospects. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their race; a word which, applied to wines, in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil.
Страница 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.
Страница 186 - Homer doubtless owes to his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to his character; but to have added can be no great crime, if nothing be taken away. Elegance is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved as well as to be reverenced.
Страница 28 - Travels, a production so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity.
Страница 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.
Страница 195 - New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity.