The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions to the first edition, 4권1807 |
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... merit . " " " Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of Rites and Mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient ...
... merit . " " " Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of Rites and Mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient ...
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... life with more ob- servation than Reynolds . " ' Secretary to the British Herring Fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit . 1780 . Etat . 71 . " He repeated to DR . JOHNSON . 5.
... life with more ob- servation than Reynolds . " ' Secretary to the British Herring Fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit . 1780 . Etat . 71 . " He repeated to DR . JOHNSON . 5.
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... merit . " 6 6 " His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much in- tercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be . ' There might , indeed , be something in the ...
... merit . " 6 6 " His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much in- tercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be . ' There might , indeed , be something in the ...
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... merit of Otway . " Etat . 71 . " Snatches of reading ( said he ) will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree advantageous . I would put a child into a library ( where no unfit books are ) and let him ...
... merit of Otway . " Etat . 71 . " Snatches of reading ( said he ) will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree advantageous . I would put a child into a library ( where no unfit books are ) and let him ...
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... merits of the English Poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they con- tributed to illuminate . His mind was so full of that kind of information , and it was so well ...
... merits of the English Poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they con- tributed to illuminate . His mind was so full of that kind of information , and it was so well ...
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436 페이지 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
326 페이지 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
111 페이지 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
149 페이지 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
111 페이지 - ... similitude: sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, .in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
45 페이지 - ... felt; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others.
111 페이지 - It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, such as reason teacheth and proveth things by, which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.
31 페이지 - Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him ; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
202 페이지 - It having been argued that this was an improvement.—" No, Sir," said he, eagerly, " it is not an improvement: they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?
468 페이지 - ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.