The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... afterwards to have changed his mind , for , in the verses on the government of Cromwell he inserts them liberally with great happiness . After so much criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What ...
... afterwards to have changed his mind , for , in the verses on the government of Cromwell he inserts them liberally with great happiness . After so much criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten . What ...
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... afterwards , his father , being made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England , brought him away from his native country , and educated him in London . In 1631 he was sent to Oxford , where he was con- sidered " as a dreaming young ...
... afterwards , his father , being made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England , brought him away from his native country , and educated him in London . In 1631 he was sent to Oxford , where he was con- sidered " as a dreaming young ...
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... afterwards employed in carrying on the king's correspondence ; and , as he says , discharged this office with great safety to the royalists : and , be- ing accidentally discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand ...
... afterwards employed in carrying on the king's correspondence ; and , as he says , discharged this office with great safety to the royalists : and , be- ing accidentally discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand ...
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... afterwards refrained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets ; which has perhaps been with rather too much constancy pursued . This passage exhibits one of those triplets which are not unfrequent in this ...
... afterwards refrained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets ; which has perhaps been with rather too much constancy pursued . This passage exhibits one of those triplets which are not unfrequent in this ...
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... afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ...
... afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ...
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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.