The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 19Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... pleasure on those things , which are somewhat congenial , and of a remote kin- dred to your own conceptions : and to " forgive the many failings of thofe , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to those heights that you poffefs ...
... pleasure on those things , which are somewhat congenial , and of a remote kin- dred to your own conceptions : and to " forgive the many failings of thofe , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to those heights that you poffefs ...
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... pleasure about the town . The like confidera- tions have hindered me from dealing with the lament- able companions of their profe and doggrel ; I am fo far from defending my Poetry against them , that I will not fo much as expofe theirs ...
... pleasure about the town . The like confidera- tions have hindered me from dealing with the lament- able companions of their profe and doggrel ; I am fo far from defending my Poetry against them , that I will not fo much as expofe theirs ...
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... pleasure , what entertainment , can be raised from fo pitiful a ma- chine , where we see the fuccefs of the battle , from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Chriftians , we are glad that we have gotten God on our fide ...
... pleasure , what entertainment , can be raised from fo pitiful a ma- chine , where we see the fuccefs of the battle , from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Chriftians , we are glad that we have gotten God on our fide ...
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... pleasure of the reader , and the episodes give it more ornament , and more variety . The in- ftruction is equal ; but in the first is only instructive , the latter forms a hero and a prince . If it fignifies any thing which of them is ...
... pleasure of the reader , and the episodes give it more ornament , and more variety . The in- ftruction is equal ; but in the first is only instructive , the latter forms a hero and a prince . If it fignifies any thing which of them is ...
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... pleasure . : To come to a conclufion : he is manifeftly below Ho- race , because he borrows most of his greatest beauties from him and Cafaubon is fo far from denying this , that he has written a treatife purpofely concerning it ; where ...
... pleasure . : To come to a conclufion : he is manifeftly below Ho- race , because he borrows most of his greatest beauties from him and Cafaubon is fo far from denying this , that he has written a treatife purpofely concerning it ; where ...
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Страница 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Страница 195 - I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic.
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Страница 289 - Intrust thy fortune to the powers above ; Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant What their unerring wisdom sees thee want : * In goodness, as in greatness, they excel ; Ah, that we loved ourselves but half so well...
Страница 114 - ... words may then be laudably revived, when either they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice ; and when their obscurity is taken away, by joining other words to them which clear the sense, according to the rule of Horace, for the admission of new words.
Страница 194 - The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury.
Страница 280 - Beset with thieves, and never mends his pace. Of all the vows, the first and chief request Of each, is to be richer than the rest; And yet no doubts the poor man's draught control, He dreads no poison in his homely bowl, Then fear the deadly drug, when gems divine Enchase the cup, and sparkle in the wine.
Страница 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat...