The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing Adventurer and RasselasJ. Haddon, 1820 - English literature |
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... Menander * . Secondly , Upon the vices and govern- * Menander , an Athenian , son of Diopethes and Hegestrates , was apparently the most eminent of the writers of the new comedy . He had been a scholar of Theophrastus : his passion for ...
... Menander * . Secondly , Upon the vices and govern- * Menander , an Athenian , son of Diopethes and Hegestrates , was apparently the most eminent of the writers of the new comedy . He had been a scholar of Theophrastus : his passion for ...
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... Menander and Terence is , in pro- priety of speech , the fine comedy . I do not repeat all this after so many writers but just to recal it to memory , and to add to what they have said something which they have omitted , a singular ...
... Menander and Terence is , in pro- priety of speech , the fine comedy . I do not repeat all this after so many writers but just to recal it to memory , and to add to what they have said something which they have omitted , a singular ...
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... Menander . But the Romans , without troubling themselves with this order of succession , distinguished their comedies by the dressest of the players . The robe , called prætexta , with large borders of purple , being the for- mal dress ...
... Menander . But the Romans , without troubling themselves with this order of succession , distinguished their comedies by the dressest of the players . The robe , called prætexta , with large borders of purple , being the for- mal dress ...
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... Menander a modest " woman . ' It is evident that this whole character is taken from Plutarch . Let us now go on with this remark of fa- ther Rapin , since we have already spoken of the Latin comedy , of which he gives us a description ...
... Menander a modest " woman . ' It is evident that this whole character is taken from Plutarch . Let us now go on with this remark of fa- ther Rapin , since we have already spoken of the Latin comedy , of which he gives us a description ...
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... Menander is diverting in a more elegant " manner : his style is pure , clear , elevated , and na- 66 tural ; he persuades like an orator , and instructs " like a philosopher ; and if we may venture to judge upon the fragments which ...
... Menander is diverting in a more elegant " manner : his style is pure , clear , elevated , and na- 66 tural ; he persuades like an orator , and instructs " like a philosopher ; and if we may venture to judge upon the fragments which ...
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Page 126 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 113 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear.
Page 295 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia.
Page 97 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate.
Page 103 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 323 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refine•icnt.
Page 96 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 310 - Sir, said he, you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic sciences can perform. I have been long of opinion, that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
Page 312 - ... easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would see the earth, and all its inhabitants, rolling beneath him, and presenting to him successively, by its diurnal motion, all the countries within the same parallel. How must it amuse the...
Page 415 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.