PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS.1781 |
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... friendship . I cannot therefore be ex- pected to fay much of a life , concerning which I had long fince communicated , my thoughts to a man capable of dig- nifying his narration with fo much ele- gance of language and force of fenti ...
... friendship . I cannot therefore be ex- pected to fay much of a life , concerning which I had long fince communicated , my thoughts to a man capable of dig- nifying his narration with fo much ele- gance of language and force of fenti ...
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... Rolls in Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time main- tained . Temple A 3 Temple received with fufficient kind- nefs the nephew of his SWIFT . 5.
... Rolls in Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time main- tained . Temple A 3 Temple received with fufficient kind- nefs the nephew of his SWIFT . 5.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON. Temple received with fufficient kind- nefs the nephew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they converfed together , fo much pleased , that he de- tained him two years in his house . Here he became known to ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON. Temple received with fufficient kind- nefs the nephew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they converfed together , fo much pleased , that he de- tained him two years in his house . Here he became known to ...
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... friend of Steele ; who , in the Tatler , which began in 1710 , confeffes the ad- vantages of his converfation , and men- tions fomething contributed by him to his paper . But he was now immerging into political controverfy ; for the ...
... friend of Steele ; who , in the Tatler , which began in 1710 , confeffes the ad- vantages of his converfation , and men- tions fomething contributed by him to his paper . But he was now immerging into political controverfy ; for the ...
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... friends , who , as they thought , had made England the arbi- tress of nations , were confounded be- tween fhame and rage , when they found that mines had been exhaufted , and millions deftroyed , to fecure the Dutch or aggrandife the ...
... friends , who , as they thought , had made England the arbi- tress of nations , were confounded be- tween fhame and rage , when they found that mines had been exhaufted , and millions deftroyed , to fecure the Dutch or aggrandife the ...
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Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1781 |
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Հատոր 58 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1781 |
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Էջ 13 - We were all at the first night of it in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say: "it will do, — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them.
Էջ 15 - His character, therefore, must be formed from the multiplicity and diversity of his attainments, rather than from any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perhaps there was nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had not divided his powers, to different pursuits.
Էջ 84 - ... him ; the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things : he is neither required to mount elevations nor to explore profundities; his passage is always on a level, along solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction.
Էջ 6 - ... language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. What such an author has told, who would tell again? I have made an abstract from his larger narrative; and have this gratification from my attempt, that it gives me an opportunity of paying due tribute to the memory of Goldsmith.
Էջ 10 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life. Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combatting Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent...
Էջ 61 - Travels ;" a production so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity.
Էջ 94 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in,
Էջ 15 - Polly, till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and fold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verfes to her puhlifhed; and pamphlets made even of her fayings and jefts. Furthermore, it drove out of England, for that feafon, the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Էջ 21 - What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
Էջ 3 - Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to soothe his mind, and aid his restoration to health...