Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of Dryden and Pope, and Rasselas1879 |
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... perform the last feat of oratorical endurance , and pour forth floods of eloquence that shall never die , to the empty benches of an unheeding house . Courage was the key to Johnson's character . Even his fear of death , about which we ...
... perform the last feat of oratorical endurance , and pour forth floods of eloquence that shall never die , to the empty benches of an unheeding house . Courage was the key to Johnson's character . Even his fear of death , about which we ...
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... that as the Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably the best subjects I ever had , so what I have written on them is much better than what I have performed on any other . As I have endeavoured to DRYDEN . 7 .
... that as the Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably the best subjects I ever had , so what I have written on them is much better than what I have performed on any other . As I have endeavoured to DRYDEN . 7 .
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Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. performed on any other . As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . ' It is written in quatrains , or heroic stanzas of four lines ...
Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. performed on any other . As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . ' It is written in quatrains , or heroic stanzas of four lines ...
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... performed ; but , with respect to the dramatic writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this postscript , something equivalent ; but his purpose being to exalt himself by the comparison , he shews faults distinctly , and only ...
... performed ; but , with respect to the dramatic writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this postscript , something equivalent ; but his purpose being to exalt himself by the comparison , he shews faults distinctly , and only ...
Stran 24
... perform both parts , is but half a writer for the stage ? ( 6 The Duke of Guise , ' a tragedy written in conjunction with Lee , as Edipus ' had been before , seems to deserve notice only for the offence which it gave to the remnant of ...
... perform both parts , is but half a writer for the stage ? ( 6 The Duke of Guise , ' a tragedy written in conjunction with Lee , as Edipus ' had been before , seems to deserve notice only for the offence which it gave to the remnant of ...
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Stran 417 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Stran 400 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Stran 454 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Stran 253 - Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Stran xvii - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Stran x - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Stran 98 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
Stran 102 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Stran 392 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Stran 415 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.