The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 2A. V. Blake, 1843 |
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... KING OF PRUSSIA 56 BROWNE SMITH . DUKE KING SPRAT . · HALIFAX . PARNELL GARTH ROWE ADDISON • HUGHES Britain • 57 ASCHAM • 71 ib . 72 73 POLITICAL TRACTS . • 77 Marmor Norfolciense ; or , an Essay on an 78 ancient Prophetical Inscription ...
... KING OF PRUSSIA 56 BROWNE SMITH . DUKE KING SPRAT . · HALIFAX . PARNELL GARTH ROWE ADDISON • HUGHES Britain • 57 ASCHAM • 71 ib . 72 73 POLITICAL TRACTS . • 77 Marmor Norfolciense ; or , an Essay on an 78 ancient Prophetical Inscription ...
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... of the guards to his friend ; which for about three years the gentleman enjoyed , and , upon his death , the Duke returned the commission to his generous benefactor . " When he had finished his business , he returned | KING OF PRUSSIA.
... of the guards to his friend ; which for about three years the gentleman enjoyed , and , upon his death , the Duke returned the commission to his generous benefactor . " When he had finished his business , he returned | KING OF PRUSSIA.
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... KING OF PRUSSIA . * CHARLES FREDERICK the present king of Prus - ces in the conduct of affairs which he could not sia , whose actions and designs now keep Europe approve , and some which he could scarcely for- in attention , is the ...
... KING OF PRUSSIA . * CHARLES FREDERICK the present king of Prus - ces in the conduct of affairs which he could not sia , whose actions and designs now keep Europe approve , and some which he could scarcely for- in attention , is the ...
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... king irritated his son . A lady tives in Turkey ; and his parents were forbidden to destine him to any other mode of life . with whom the prince was suspected of intimacy , perhaps more than virtue allowed , was ... KING OF PRUSSIA 359.
... king irritated his son . A lady tives in Turkey ; and his parents were forbidden to destine him to any other mode of life . with whom the prince was suspected of intimacy , perhaps more than virtue allowed , was ... KING OF PRUSSIA 359.
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... king , being now no longer under in- fluence , or its appearance , determined how to act towards the unhappy lady who had possessed for seven years the empty title of the Princess of Prussia . The papers of those times ... KING OF PRUSSIA .
... king , being now no longer under in- fluence , or its appearance , determined how to act towards the unhappy lady who had possessed for seven years the empty title of the Princess of Prussia . The papers of those times ... KING OF PRUSSIA .
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Page 252 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Page 148 - 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 268 - His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the
Page 259 - 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 268 - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cow-ley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows...
Page 301 - These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments, they strike rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. "Double, double, toil and trouble.
Page 172 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the ' Beggar's Opera.' 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...
Page 234 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. 'For,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 8 - From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
Page 8 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without...