The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poetsW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 |
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... genius , and for their maintenance of these , the main objects of his own life and labour , he praised many an author whom other more courtly critics have thought it not cruelty to ridicule . He sums up his eulogium on a poet with the ...
... genius , and for their maintenance of these , the main objects of his own life and labour , he praised many an author whom other more courtly critics have thought it not cruelty to ridicule . He sums up his eulogium on a poet with the ...
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... genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his proficiency , that he undertook the care and cost of his academical education . He entered his name in St. John's college , at ...
... genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his proficiency , that he undertook the care and cost of his academical education . He entered his name in St. John's college , at ...
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... genius which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the ...
... genius which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the ...
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... genius , and degraded himself by con- ferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit , and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the ...
... genius , and degraded himself by con- ferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and wide influence , but of less wit , and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the ...
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... genius in the design , nor skill in the delineation . " The first I shall name is Mr. Johnson , a gentleman that owes to nature excellent faculties and an elevated genius , and to industry and application many acquired ac- complishments ...
... genius in the design , nor skill in the delineation . " The first I shall name is Mr. Johnson , a gentleman that owes to nature excellent faculties and an elevated genius , and to industry and application many acquired ac- complishments ...
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Stran 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...
Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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.