The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6G. Offor, 1818 |
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... poetical account of the virtues of plants , and colours of flowers , is not perused with more slug- gish frigidity . The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer ...
... poetical account of the virtues of plants , and colours of flowers , is not perused with more slug- gish frigidity . The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer ...
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... poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once an egg in his mind , he cannot ... poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi ...
... poetical language , the foresight of events hatching in futurity ; but , having once an egg in his mind , he cannot ... poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley : Omnibus Mundi ...
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... poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of ...
... poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of ...
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... poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiosity . Nothing can be more disgusting than a narrative spang- led with conceits ; and conceits are all that the Davi- deis supplies ...
... poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiosity . Nothing can be more disgusting than a narrative spang- led with conceits ; and conceits are all that the Davi- deis supplies ...
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Samuel Johnson. One of the great sources of poetical delight is descrip- tion , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what ...
Samuel Johnson. One of the great sources of poetical delight is descrip- tion , or the power of presenting pictures to the mind . Cowley gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what ...
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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.