The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Nichols and Son, 1801 - Biography |
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... reasons which have hindered with refpect to the more noble parts of the Greek drama , operate with double force upon my pre- fent fubject . Though ridicule , which is the bufinefs of comedy , be not lefs uniform in all times , than the ...
... reasons which have hindered with refpect to the more noble parts of the Greek drama , operate with double force upon my pre- fent fubject . Though ridicule , which is the bufinefs of comedy , be not lefs uniform in all times , than the ...
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... reason for these names , they have left us fo little upon the fubject which is come down to us , that we need not trouble ourselves with a diftinction which affords us no folid fatisfaction . Plautus and Terence , the only authors of ...
... reason for these names , they have left us fo little upon the fubject which is come down to us , that we need not trouble ourselves with a diftinction which affords us no folid fatisfaction . Plautus and Terence , the only authors of ...
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... reason , that we have not enough of their works to qualify us for judges . While we are upon this fubject , it will perhaps not difplease the reader to fee what that cri- tick's opinion is of Lopes de Vega and Moliere . It will appear ...
... reason , that we have not enough of their works to qualify us for judges . While we are upon this fubject , it will perhaps not difplease the reader to fee what that cri- tick's opinion is of Lopes de Vega and Moliere . It will appear ...
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... reason which he himself offers , when he says , that he exhibited debauchery upon the ftage , not to corrupt the morals , but to mend them . The fight of grofs faults is rather a poison than a remedy . The apologist has forgot one ...
... reason which he himself offers , when he says , that he exhibited debauchery upon the ftage , not to corrupt the morals , but to mend them . The fight of grofs faults is rather a poison than a remedy . The apologist has forgot one ...
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... reason , that Horace is more delicate , and Lacilius more pointed . A difh of fatire was always a delicious treat to human ma- lignity ; but that difh was differently seasoned , as the manners manners were polished more or lefs . By ...
... reason , that Horace is more delicate , and Lacilius more pointed . A difh of fatire was always a delicious treat to human ma- lignity ; but that difh was differently seasoned , as the manners manners were polished more or lefs . By ...
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Page 100 - 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 411 - ... by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. The winds alone, of all the elemental powers, have hitherto refused my authority, and multitudes have perished by equinoctial tempests which I found myself unable to prohibit or restrain.
Page 116 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Page 107 - Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them ; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings...
Page 302 - The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds.
Page 95 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 326 - I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace.
Page 315 - But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Page 311 - ... powers, who had contrived many engines both of use and recreation. By a wheel, which the stream turned, he forced the water into a tower, whence it was distributed to all the apartments of the palace. He erected a pavilion in the garden, around which he kept the air always cool by artificial showers.
Page 436 - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.