Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Том 1Phillips, 1808 |
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... poem , and scarcely perhaps a less laborious effort .. You will think I shall never have done with divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history properly so called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st ...
... poem , and scarcely perhaps a less laborious effort .. You will think I shall never have done with divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history properly so called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st ...
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... poem . The same may be said of the books of Samuel as of Joshua . The Cyropædia of Xenophon is evidently a work of imagination . * For a specimen of regular biography we can therefore extend our views no further back than the work of ...
... poem . The same may be said of the books of Samuel as of Joshua . The Cyropædia of Xenophon is evidently a work of imagination . * For a specimen of regular biography we can therefore extend our views no further back than the work of ...
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... senates , and whose delicacy might have polished courts . " From a deficiency of materials I conclude it happened that some of Dr. Johnson's lives of the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; DR . JOHNSON . 55.
... senates , and whose delicacy might have polished courts . " From a deficiency of materials I conclude it happened that some of Dr. Johnson's lives of the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; DR . JOHNSON . 55.
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Addressed to His Son George Gregory. the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; yet in this point of view they are excellent , and even where the deficiency of ma- terials is most apparent , he contrives to intro- duce some ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; yet in this point of view they are excellent , and even where the deficiency of ma- terials is most apparent , he contrives to intro- duce some ...
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... poems , in five volumes , under the sanction of her grandson , the present Marquis of Bute . But the most elegant production that has ever adorned this walk of literature , is Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands . It is more ...
... poems , in five volumes , under the sanction of her grandson , the present Marquis of Bute . But the most elegant production that has ever adorned this walk of literature , is Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands . It is more ...
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Страница 65 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Страница 167 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Страница 90 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Страница 105 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Страница 166 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Страница 57 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Страница 166 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
Страница 168 - Csesar with a senate at his heels. In Parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others...
Страница 167 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One...
Страница 195 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...