Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 strani |
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Stran xi
... Lord Bacon ; ' Pray Sir , do you read books through ? ' said Johnson ; -and a com- parison of the two sayings is instructive . But he who would travel express along the road to knowledge must pay the express fare ; and Johnson paid it ...
... Lord Bacon ; ' Pray Sir , do you read books through ? ' said Johnson ; -and a com- parison of the two sayings is instructive . But he who would travel express along the road to knowledge must pay the express fare ; and Johnson paid it ...
Stran xviii
... Lord Chesterfield got the letter given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest , of the specimens of indignant epistolary com- position which our language contains : - ' February 7 , 1755 . ' MY LORD , I have been lately ...
... Lord Chesterfield got the letter given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest , of the specimens of indignant epistolary com- position which our language contains : - ' February 7 , 1755 . ' MY LORD , I have been lately ...
Stran xix
... lord , have now passed , since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties , of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it , at last ...
... lord , have now passed , since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties , of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it , at last ...
Stran xx
... Lord Bute , it was decided to award to Johnson a pension of £ 300 a year , in consideration of his distinguished services to literature . It is no small testimony to Johnson's independence of spirit that is recorded in the fact that ...
... Lord Bute , it was decided to award to Johnson a pension of £ 300 a year , in consideration of his distinguished services to literature . It is no small testimony to Johnson's independence of spirit that is recorded in the fact that ...
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... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox , and his poet has ...
... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox , and his poet has ...
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Stran 86 - FROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey.
Stran xix - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Stran 314 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Stran 152 - 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 unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Stran xix - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Stran 188 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Stran 246 - 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 291 - 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 275 - Hope's delusive mine," as Johnson finely says ; and I may also quote the celebrated lines of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical :— " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet, fool'd 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 153 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.