Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of Dryden and Pope, and Rasselas1879 |
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Stran 25
... Princess of Modena , then Duchess of York , in a strain of flattery which disgraces genius , and which it was wonderful that any man that knew the meaning of his own words could use without self - detesta- tion . It is an attempt to ...
... Princess of Modena , then Duchess of York , in a strain of flattery which disgraces genius , and which it was wonderful that any man that knew the meaning of his own words could use without self - detesta- tion . It is an attempt to ...
Stran 27
... princes , and the vicissitudes of empire , are inserted several scenes which the writer intended for comic , but which I suppose that age did not much commend and this would not endure . There are , however , passages of ex- cellence ...
... princes , and the vicissitudes of empire , are inserted several scenes which the writer intended for comic , but which I suppose that age did not much commend and this would not endure . There are , however , passages of ex- cellence ...
Stran 71
... . In the fate of princes the public has an interest ; and what happens to them of good or evil , the poets have always considered as business for the Muse . But after so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , DRYDEN . 71.
... . In the fate of princes the public has an interest ; and what happens to them of good or evil , the poets have always considered as business for the Muse . But after so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , DRYDEN . 71.
Stran 129
... princes of Europe ; and as he confesses , ' thought himself the greatest genius that ever was . ' Self - confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings ; he , indeed , who forms his opinion of himself in solitude , without ...
... princes of Europe ; and as he confesses , ' thought himself the greatest genius that ever was . ' Self - confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings ; he , indeed , who forms his opinion of himself in solitude , without ...
Stran 252
... Princes ' honours , Poets ' lays , Due to his merit , and brave thirst of praise . Living , great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying , fears herself may die . ' Of this epitaph the first couplet is good , the second not ...
... Princes ' honours , Poets ' lays , Due to his merit , and brave thirst of praise . Living , great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying , fears herself may die . ' Of this epitaph the first couplet is good , the second not ...
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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.