The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy, translated from Brumoy. General conclusion to Brumoy's Greek theatre. Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth. Adventurer. History of Rasselas, prince of AbissiniaT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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... equally with men and * This history of the three ages of comedy , and their different characters , is taken in part from the valuable fragments of Pla- tonius . gods . gods * . These are the features by which the GREEK COM E D Y. 11.
... equally with men and * This history of the three ages of comedy , and their different characters , is taken in part from the valuable fragments of Pla- tonius . gods . gods * . These are the features by which the GREEK COM E D Y. 11.
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... equally entertaining by the " action and by the dialogue . The ftyle of Aristo- 66 phanes is no lefs pleafing than his fancy ; for , be- " fides its clearness , its vigour , and its fweetness , " there is in it a certain harmony fo ...
... equally entertaining by the " action and by the dialogue . The ftyle of Aristo- 66 phanes is no lefs pleafing than his fancy ; for , be- " fides its clearness , its vigour , and its fweetness , " there is in it a certain harmony fo ...
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... equally " together . After having ftudied all that is left us " of Grecian learning , if we have not read Aristophanes , " we cannot yet know all the charms and beauties of that language . " Plutarch's fen- timent upon A riftophanes and ...
... equally " together . After having ftudied all that is left us " of Grecian learning , if we have not read Aristophanes , " we cannot yet know all the charms and beauties of that language . " Plutarch's fen- timent upon A riftophanes and ...
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... equally fhared between Moliere and Corneille , as they are different in their own nature , and then nothing more will remain than to compare the feveral difficulties of each compofition , and to rate thofe difficulties together which ...
... equally fhared between Moliere and Corneille , as they are different in their own nature , and then nothing more will remain than to compare the feveral difficulties of each compofition , and to rate thofe difficulties together which ...
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... equally in equal variety , which is very far from being the cafe ; yet comedy , as it now stands , confifts not in incidents , but in charac- ters . Now it is by incidents only that characters are diverfified , as well upon the ftage of ...
... equally in equal variety , which is very far from being the cafe ; yet comedy , as it now stands , confifts not in incidents , but in charac- ters . Now it is by incidents only that characters are diverfified , as well upon the ftage of ...
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Page 64 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 56 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it"; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 240 - Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
Page 327 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty cannot bestow.
Page 338 - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
Page 250 - Nile through all his passage; pass over to distant regions, and examine the face of nature from one extremity of the earth to the other!
Page 268 - He enumerated many examples of heroes immovable by pain or pleasure, who looked with indifference on those modes or accidents to which the vulgar give the names of good and evil.
Page 63 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 257 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified: no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds.
Page 236 - ... beasts of prey by the mountains which confined them. On one part were flocks and herds feeding in the...