The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and IdlerW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 - English literature |
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... censure or contempt , win the applause of those , whose passions leave them no leisure for abstracted truth , and whom virtue itself cannot please by its naked dignity . But , by such , Johnson professed , that he had little expectation ...
... censure or contempt , win the applause of those , whose passions leave them no leisure for abstracted truth , and whom virtue itself cannot please by its naked dignity . But , by such , Johnson professed , that he had little expectation ...
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... censured . Ancient poetry necessarily obscure . Examples from Horace 67. On the trades of London .. 69. Idle hope . ..... 25 30 35 41 46 74. Apology for neglecting officious advice 52 81. Incitement to enterprise and emulation . Some ...
... censured . Ancient poetry necessarily obscure . Examples from Horace 67. On the trades of London .. 69. Idle hope . ..... 25 30 35 41 46 74. Apology for neglecting officious advice 52 81. Incitement to enterprise and emulation . Some ...
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... censure and contempt , truth is frequently violated ; and scarcely the most vigi- lant and unremitted circumspection will secure him that mixes with mankind , from being hourly deceived by men of whom it can scarcely be imagined , that ...
... censure and contempt , truth is frequently violated ; and scarcely the most vigi- lant and unremitted circumspection will secure him that mixes with mankind , from being hourly deceived by men of whom it can scarcely be imagined , that ...
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... censured but covetousness and distrust of poor honest servants , and where all the praise was bestowed on good housekeeping , and a free heart . At the death of his father , Jack set himself to re- trieve the honour of his family : he ...
... censured but covetousness and distrust of poor honest servants , and where all the praise was bestowed on good housekeeping , and a free heart . At the death of his father , Jack set himself to re- trieve the honour of his family : he ...
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... of the Rhetoric was long a favourite project . praise bestowed by others , nor any eminent conquests over 30 No. 58 . THE ADVENTURER . Presumption of modern criticism censured Ancient poetry necessarily obscure Examples from Horace.
... of the Rhetoric was long a favourite project . praise bestowed by others , nor any eminent conquests over 30 No. 58 . THE ADVENTURER . Presumption of modern criticism censured Ancient poetry necessarily obscure Examples from Horace.
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Page 366 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 365 - Reynolds. ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Achilles...
Page 15 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Page 379 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Page 432 - thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent. The arts by which...
Page 318 - He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : — When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick...
Page 245 - Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired: but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and as he grows more elegant becomes less intelligible.
Page 365 - She bow'd, obey'd him, and cut paper. This vexing him who gave her birth, Thought by all Heaven a burning...
Page 117 - to pass through things temporal," with no other care than " not to lose finally the things eternal," I look with such veneration as inclines me to approve his conduct in the whole, without a minute examination of its parts ; yet I could never forbear to wish, that while vice is every day multiplying...
Page 426 - this palace is the seat of happiness, where pleasure .succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission. Whatever nature has provided for the delight of sense, is here spread forth to be enjoyed. What can mortals hope or imagine, which the master of this palace has not obtained ? The dishes of luxury cover his table, the voice of harmony lulls him in his bowers ; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java, and sleeps upon the down of the cygnets of Ganges.