The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted in Westminster- school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted in Westminster- school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
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... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted , on this ...
... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted , on this ...
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... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intel- lection , in contradistinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intel- lection , in contradistinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
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... to festivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of • Dodsley's Collection of Poems , vol . v . R. the present day , he has given rather a pleasing 26 COWLEY .
... to festivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of • Dodsley's Collection of Poems , vol . v . R. the present day , he has given rather a pleasing 26 COWLEY .
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... present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of ...
... present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of ...
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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...