The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Količina 11William Durell, 1811 |
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... excellence , and confessed his love . The effect of the publication upon the dean and Stella is thus related by Delany : " I have good reason to believe that they both were greatly shocked and distressed , though it may be dif- ferently ...
... excellence , and confessed his love . The effect of the publication upon the dean and Stella is thus related by Delany : " I have good reason to believe that they both were greatly shocked and distressed , though it may be dif- ferently ...
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... to a Lady on her Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his opi- nion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admit- ted ; for , if his general thoughts on women were such as he exhibits , a very little sense in a B 2 SWIFT . 31.
... to a Lady on her Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his opi- nion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admit- ted ; for , if his general thoughts on women were such as he exhibits , a very little sense in a B 2 SWIFT . 31.
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... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- shire under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a me- thod very rarely practised , taught him the Greek ...
... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- shire under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a me- thod very rarely practised , taught him the Greek ...
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... excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by pro- posing subjects , and obliging him to correct his per- formances by many revisals ; after which the old gen- tleman ...
... excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by pro- posing subjects , and obliging him to correct his per- formances by many revisals ; after which the old gen- tleman ...
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... excellence . Those performances which strike with wonder are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents should happen twice to ...
... excellence . Those performances which strike with wonder are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents should happen twice to ...
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Stran 155 - Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Stran 253 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Stran 94 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Stran 190 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust: Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Stran 154 - He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Stran 188 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Stran 334 - There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science.
Stran 336 - As a writer he had this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Stran 42 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.
Stran 134 - .I never in my " life knew a man that had so tender a heart for " his particular friends, or more general friendship