The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... friends ; and great assistance has been given me by Mr. Spence's Collections , of which I consider the commu- nication as a favour worthy of publick acknowledgment . PREFATORY NOTICE ΤΟ THE LIVES OF THE POETS . SUCH Grad RR English.
... friends ; and great assistance has been given me by Mr. Spence's Collections , of which I consider the commu- nication as a favour worthy of publick acknowledgment . PREFATORY NOTICE ΤΟ THE LIVES OF THE POETS . SUCH Grad RR English.
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... him with a letter to the queen , written in favour of the elector of Bavaria . " I shall expect , " says he , " with impatience , the return of Mr. Prior , whose conduct is very agreeable to me . " And while the duke of Shrewsbury PRIOR .
... him with a letter to the queen , written in favour of the elector of Bavaria . " I shall expect , " says he , " with impatience , the return of Mr. Prior , whose conduct is very agreeable to me . " And while the duke of Shrewsbury PRIOR .
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... favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose custody ...
... favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose custody ...
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... favour , that , being in a high degree offended and dis- gusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be publick ; he lived for himself and for his ...
... favour , that , being in a high degree offended and dis- gusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be publick ; he lived for himself and for his ...
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... favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resent- ment , as , in his preface to Prince Arthur , he had said of the dramatick writers almost all that was alleged after- wards by ...
... favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resent- ment , as , in his preface to Prince Arthur , he had said of the dramatick writers almost all that was alleged after- wards by ...
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Addison afterwards appeared beauties blank verse Boileau Bolingbroke censure character contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad edition elegance endeavoured epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence faults favour fortune friendship genius Gentleman's Magazine happy Homer honour Iliad images imagination justly kind king known labour lady language learning letter likewise lines lived lord Tyrconnel Mallet mankind ment mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once passion performance perhaps Pindar pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present printed publick published queen racter reader reason received remarked reputation satire Savage says seems sentiments sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon sufficient supposed Swift sylphs tell thing Thomson tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Westminster Abbey WILLIAM TRUMBULL write written wrote Young
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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...