The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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Stran vii
... attention and inquiry , have gleaned many particulars which would have diversified and en- livened my biography . These omissions , which it is now useless to lament , have been often supplied by the kindness of Mr. Steevens and other ...
... attention and inquiry , have gleaned many particulars which would have diversified and en- livened my biography . These omissions , which it is now useless to lament , have been often supplied by the kindness of Mr. Steevens and other ...
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... attention of our readers to some few of the charges brought against the work now before us , and then leave it to their candid and unbiassed judg- ment to decide , whether the deficiencies pointed out are but as dust in the balance ...
... attention of our readers to some few of the charges brought against the work now before us , and then leave it to their candid and unbiassed judg- ment to decide , whether the deficiencies pointed out are but as dust in the balance ...
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... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults ; negligences or errours are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness ...
... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults ; negligences or errours are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness ...
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... attention to statutes or reports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual plea- sure can be given ...
... attention to statutes or reports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual plea- sure can be given ...
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... the dialogue is quick and sparkling , the inci- dents such as seize the attention , and the wit so exube- rant , that it " o'er - informs its tenement . " Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in CONGREVE . 25.
... the dialogue is quick and sparkling , the inci- dents such as seize the attention , and the wit so exube- rant , that it " o'er - informs its tenement . " Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in CONGREVE . 25.
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Stran 210 - 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.
Stran 63 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Stran 210 - Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms, by fits, thick flashes send, Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Stran 267 - Dryden's mind was sufficiently shown by the dismission of his poetical prejudices, and the rejection of unnatural thoughts and rugged numbers. But Dryden never desired to apply all the judgment that he had. He wrote, and professed to write, merely for the people ; and when he pleased others he contented himself.
Stran 98 - ... misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that " the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father '.
Stran 58 - I hear is, that he felt a gradual decay, though so early in life," and was declining for five or six months. It was not, as I apprehended, the gout in his stomach, but I believe rather a complication first of gross humours, as he was naturally corpulent, not discharging themselves, as he used no sort of exercise.
Stran 357 - He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Stran 268 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Stran 265 - He considered poetry as the business of his life; 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!
Stran 105 - During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance he was without lodging, and often without meat ; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields or the streets allowed him ; there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg...