The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Nichols, 1816 |
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... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . This easy and safe conveyance ...
... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . This easy and safe conveyance ...
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... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocu- larity : but he apparently ...
... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocu- larity : but he apparently ...
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... common operation . It may be justly supposed that there was in his con- versation , what appears so frequently in his Letters , an affectation of familiarity with the Great , and am- bition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by ...
... common operation . It may be justly supposed that there was in his con- versation , what appears so frequently in his Letters , an affectation of familiarity with the Great , and am- bition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by ...
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... common readers . Eustathius was therefore necessarily consulted . To read Eustathius , of whose work there was then no Latin version , I suspect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; some other was therefore to be ...
... common readers . Eustathius was therefore necessarily consulted . To read Eustathius , of whose work there was then no Latin version , I suspect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; some other was therefore to be ...
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... common friend . When Addison's opinion was asked , he declared the versions to be both good , but Tickell's the best that had ever been written ; and sometimes said , that they were both good , but that Tickell had more of " Homer ...
... common friend . When Addison's opinion was asked , he declared the versions to be both good , but Tickell's the best that had ever been written ; and sometimes said , that they were both good , but that Tickell had more of " Homer ...
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Aaron Hill Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character copy criticism Curll death dedicated delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Duke Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry Epistle epitaph Essay excellence fame father faults favour friendship genius Homer honour Iliad images Ireland kind King known labour lady learning Letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton Mallet ment mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers once opinion original passage perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced publick published reader reason reputation rhyme satire says seems shew shewn Sir George Lyttelton Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Sophonisba stanza supposed Swift Tatler tell thing Thomson tion told translation virtue Walpole Warburton Whigs write written wrote Young
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Stran 134 - Then, Who would not grieve if such a man there be ? Who would not laugh if Addison were he ? At last it is, Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? He was at this time at open war with Lord
Stran 202 - ET INVIDIA MAJOR ANNOS HEV PAVCOS, XXXV. OB. FEB. XVI. MDCCXX. 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 gam'd no title, and who lost no friend; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd,
Stran 90 - arms by fits thick flashes send; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn. And ardent warriors wait the rising morn. As when in stillness of the silent night, As when the moon in all her lustre bright; As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure sheds her
Stran 211 - Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heaven that he liv'd, and that he dy'd. * The
Stran 109 - almost all the letters of the alphabet (the " greatest part of them at random); but such was " the number of poets eminent in that art, that " some one or other took every letter to himself: " all fell into so violent a fury, that, for half a year " or more, the common newspapers (in most of
Stran 138 - of the Science of the World, and of Wit. " It will conclude with a satire against the Misap" plication of all these, exemplified ~by Pictures, " Characters, and Examples." This work in its full extent, being now afflicted with an asthma, and finding the powers of life gradually declining, he had no longer courage to
Stran 165 - and, however he might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it with constancy ; to make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If conversation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if
Stran 10 - stock of Christianity had not been at " hand to provide them with materials ? What " other subject, through all art or nature, could " have produced Tindal for a profound author, or " furnished him with readers? It is the wise choice " of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes
Stran 94 - 1 am obliged " to you, both for the favours you have done me, " and those you intend me. I distrust neither your " will nor your memory, when it is to do good; " and if I ever become troublesome or solicitous, it " must not be out of expectation, but out of
Stran 126 - as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your " own, as they say our natural body is the same still " when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than ** I did before, and so will every man else. I know " I meant just what you explain ; but I did not ex