The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 2A. V. Blake, 1842 |
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... COWLEY DENHAM MILTON . • • 3 MORIN 344 • 19 BURMAN 346 22 SYDENHAM • BUTLER 46 CHEYNEL 349 . 351 ROCHESTER 50 CAVE ROSCOMMON 53 KING OF PRUSSIA OTWAY . • 56 BROWNE 57 ASCHAM · 356 358 • 370 379 WALLER POMFRET . DORSET STEPNEY . J ...
... COWLEY DENHAM MILTON . • • 3 MORIN 344 • 19 BURMAN 346 22 SYDENHAM • BUTLER 46 CHEYNEL 349 . 351 ROCHESTER 50 CAVE ROSCOMMON 53 KING OF PRUSSIA OTWAY . • 56 BROWNE 57 ASCHAM · 356 358 • 370 379 WALLER POMFRET . DORSET STEPNEY . J ...
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... COWLEY . THE Life of. PAGE . A view of the Controversy between Monsieur Crousaz and Mr. Warburton on the subject of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man . 499 Preliminary Discourse to the London Chronicle 500 Introduction to the " World Displayed ...
... COWLEY . THE Life of. PAGE . A view of the Controversy between Monsieur Crousaz and Mr. Warburton on the subject of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man . 499 Preliminary Discourse to the London Chronicle 500 Introduction to the " World Displayed ...
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... COWLEY . THE Life of COWLEY , notwithstanding the pen - time , that his teachers never could bring it to re- ury of English biography , has been written by tain the ordinary rules of grammar . ” Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of ...
... COWLEY . THE Life of COWLEY , notwithstanding the pen - time , that his teachers never could bring it to re- ury of English biography , has been written by tain the ordinary rules of grammar . ” Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of ...
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... Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injuri- ous to his reputation ...
... Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have considered as injuri- ous to his reputation ...
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... Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . the security of a thousand pounds given by Dr. Scarborough . This year he published his poems with a pre ...
... Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . the security of a thousand pounds given by Dr. Scarborough . This year he published his poems with a pre ...
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Page 150 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 254 - ... himself. He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers ; he never attempted to make that better which was already good, nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply...
Page 261 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 27 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history...
Page 174 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Page 245 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit, a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Page 42 - Lost;" a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Page 10 - ... for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles,...
Page 235 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 143 - No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many to righteousness.