The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 61790 |
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... leaft beautiful compofition . The paffage juft quoted is , in a poem afterwards addreffed to Walpole , literally copied : Ee this thy partial fmile from cenfure free ; ' Twas meant for merit , though it fell on me . While Young , who ...
... leaft beautiful compofition . The paffage juft quoted is , in a poem afterwards addreffed to Walpole , literally copied : Ee this thy partial fmile from cenfure free ; ' Twas meant for merit , though it fell on me . While Young , who ...
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... leaft things . " In 1719 appeared a 66 Paraphrafe on Part of " the Book of Job . " Parker , to whom it is dedicated , had not long , by means of the feals , been qualified for a patron . Of this work the author's opinion may be known ...
... leaft things . " In 1719 appeared a 66 Paraphrafe on Part of " the Book of Job . " Parker , to whom it is dedicated , had not long , by means of the feals , been qualified for a patron . Of this work the author's opinion may be known ...
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... leaft , and gives vice and folly the " greatest offence . Laughing at the mifcon- duct of the world , will in a great meafure , " eafe us of any more difagreeable paffion about " it . One paffion is more effectually driven out " by ...
... leaft , and gives vice and folly the " greatest offence . Laughing at the mifcon- duct of the world , will in a great meafure , " eafe us of any more difagreeable paffion about " it . One paffion is more effectually driven out " by ...
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... leaft ignorant of his abufe , will not hesitate by the moft wanton calumny to deftroy the quiet , the reputation , the fortune of the living . Yet cenfure is not heard beneath the tomb any more than praise . " De mortuis nil nifi ve ...
... leaft ignorant of his abufe , will not hesitate by the moft wanton calumny to deftroy the quiet , the reputation , the fortune of the living . Yet cenfure is not heard beneath the tomb any more than praise . " De mortuis nil nifi ve ...
Página 59
... leaft refemblance to ambition , he dipped again in politics . In 1745 he wrote " Reflections on the publick Situation " of the Kingdom , addressed to the Duke of " Newcastle ; " indignant , as it appears , to be- hold 66 -a pope - bred ...
... leaft refemblance to ambition , he dipped again in politics . In 1745 he wrote " Reflections on the publick Situation " of the Kingdom , addressed to the Duke of " Newcastle ; " indignant , as it appears , to be- hold 66 -a pope - bred ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 82 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity...
Página 129 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Página 130 - The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Página 130 - Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
Página 118 - ... merely as a man of letters; and though without birth, or fortune, or station, his desire was to be looked upon as a private independent gentleman, who read for his amusement.
Página 99 - ... being such as he was not inclined to give precipitately, he carried the work to Pope, who, having looked into it, advised him not to make a niggardly offer ; for " this was no every-day writer.
Página 162 - mild and affable in private life, of gentle manners, and very engaging in conversation. He was an excellent scholar, and an easy natural poet. His peculiar excellence was the dressing up an old thought in a new, neat, and trim manner. He was contented to scamper round the foot of Parnassus on his little Welsh poney, which seems never to have tired.
Página 141 - On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountain of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed, as from a copious spring.
Página 124 - An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art: an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
Página 132 - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.