The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the reign of James and Charles I , and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Britannica , H. The neglect of the court was not his only mortification COWLEY .
... by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the reign of James and Charles I , and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Britannica , H. The neglect of the court was not his only mortification COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson Alexander Chalmers. The neglect of the court was not his only mortification ; having by such alteration as he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it * under the title of ...
Samuel Johnson Alexander Chalmers. The neglect of the court was not his only mortification ; having by such alteration as he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it * under the title of ...
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... court ; which sort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his ...
... court ; which sort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his ...
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... , alderman of London . Dr. J.- Mr. Clark was in 1798 elected to the important office of chamberlain of London ; and has every year since been unanimously re - elected . N. of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , COWLEY . 11.
... , alderman of London . Dr. J.- Mr. Clark was in 1798 elected to the important office of chamberlain of London ; and has every year since been unanimously re - elected . N. of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , COWLEY . 11.
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Samuel Johnson Alexander Chalmers. of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man ...
Samuel Johnson Alexander Chalmers. of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man ...
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Page 360 - 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.
Page 61 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 93 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure had he not...
Page 60 - 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 of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of...
Page 252 - To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 331 - Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Page 24 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat.
Page 17 - A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All, So doth each teare, Which thee doth weare, A globe, yea world by that impression grow, Till thy teares mixt with mine doe overflow This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
Page 14 - Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.
Page 101 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...