Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 strani |
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Stran viii
... perhaps the boldest who ventures to attack optimism in a religious age ; but Johnson's character was morally and intellectually bold in the extreme . The high courage , which not only gave him his eminence in after years , but which ...
... perhaps the boldest who ventures to attack optimism in a religious age ; but Johnson's character was morally and intellectually bold in the extreme . The high courage , which not only gave him his eminence in after years , but which ...
Stran xi
... perhaps , the single exception of John Wesley , who was a Fellow of Lincoln at the time when Johnson was an undergraduate at Pembroke . Much ingenuity has been exercised in determining the dates and duration of Johnson's stay in Oxford ...
... perhaps , the single exception of John Wesley , who was a Fellow of Lincoln at the time when Johnson was an undergraduate at Pembroke . Much ingenuity has been exercised in determining the dates and duration of Johnson's stay in Oxford ...
Stran xiv
... perhaps more than doubtful whether Walpole ever expressly declared his belief that every man had his price , but it is tolerably certain that he found a price for many men . Yet he never found the sum at which he could purchase false ...
... perhaps more than doubtful whether Walpole ever expressly declared his belief that every man had his price , but it is tolerably certain that he found a price for many men . Yet he never found the sum at which he could purchase false ...
Stran xxi
... perhaps have produced much astonish- ment in the minds of some of his acquaintance if they could have followed the Doctor home after some conversational meeting prolonged far into the night , and watched the ferocious disputant of an ...
... perhaps have produced much astonish- ment in the minds of some of his acquaintance if they could have followed the Doctor home after some conversational meeting prolonged far into the night , and watched the ferocious disputant of an ...
Stran xxiii
... perhaps none stronger than his plea for the probable sincerity of Dryden's conversion to the Roman Catholic faith ' . Next to this was his wide knowledge . Criticism being a matter of com- parison , a man must be acquainted with many ...
... perhaps none stronger than his plea for the probable sincerity of Dryden's conversion to the Roman Catholic faith ' . Next to this was his wide knowledge . Criticism being a matter of com- parison , a man must be acquainted with many ...
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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.