The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... Milton disdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not easily understood with- out examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their ...
... Milton disdained it . CRITICAL REMARKS are not easily understood with- out examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their ...
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... Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscella- nies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently * Dodsley's Collection of Poems , vol . v . R ...
... Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscella- nies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently * Dodsley's Collection of Poems , vol . v . R ...
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... Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakespeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in common with others ; but his sentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself ...
... Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakespeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in common with others ; but his sentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself ...
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... Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on ...
... Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on ...
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... the writers that improved our taste , and advanced our language ; and whom we ought therefore to read with gratitude , though , having done much , he left much to do . MILTON . THE life of Milton has been already written DENHAM . 63.
... the writers that improved our taste , and advanced our language ; and whom we ought therefore to read with gratitude , though , having done much , he left much to do . MILTON . THE life of Milton has been already written DENHAM . 63.
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Page 312 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 60 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Page 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Page 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Page 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Page 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.