Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 strani |
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Stran ix
... once a type of a class and the noblest exception to the ordinary fate of that class . Johnson's life really begins where we find him a hack writer : —a citizen of the Grub Street republic was to become dictator in the world of ...
... once a type of a class and the noblest exception to the ordinary fate of that class . Johnson's life really begins where we find him a hack writer : —a citizen of the Grub Street republic was to become dictator in the world of ...
Stran xiii
... once more he had the world before him . It was not a bright world for him to enter upon . Times were almost at their very worst for professional writers . Pope , to whom , as to so many successful men , poverty was necessarily ...
... once more he had the world before him . It was not a bright world for him to enter upon . Times were almost at their very worst for professional writers . Pope , to whom , as to so many successful men , poverty was necessarily ...
Stran xiv
... once tried , long after he was beyond the reach of want , to narrate this portion of his own history ; but the large heart was too full , and a sudden flood of tears forced him to leave the tale untold . Some few things we know , and ...
... once tried , long after he was beyond the reach of want , to narrate this portion of his own history ; but the large heart was too full , and a sudden flood of tears forced him to leave the tale untold . Some few things we know , and ...
Stran xv
... second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was compelled , by the fact of imitating 1 p . 58 . 1 Juvenal's great satire upon Rome , to aim most of INTRODUCTION .
... second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was compelled , by the fact of imitating 1 p . 58 . 1 Juvenal's great satire upon Rome , to aim most of INTRODUCTION .
Stran xix
... once boasted myself with so much exultation , ' MY LORD , ' Your lordship's most humble , most obedient servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' The publication of the Dictionary gave Johnson at once the first place among the literary men of his ...
... once boasted myself with so much exultation , ' MY LORD , ' Your lordship's most humble , most obedient servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' The publication of the Dictionary gave Johnson at once the first place among the literary men of his ...
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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.