The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, 第 9 卷Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... censured as a satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when " they told Cowley how little favour had been shewn " him , he received the news of his ill ...
... censured as a satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when " they told Cowley how little favour had been shewn " him , he received the news of his ill ...
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... censured him as having published a book of profane and las- civious Verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenour of his life , which seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions ...
... censured him as having published a book of profane and las- civious Verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenour of his life , which seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions ...
第 64 頁
... censured as negli- gent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the ...
... censured as negli- gent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the ...
第 66 頁
... censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of ...
... censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of ...
第 98 頁
... censured for this digression as pe- dantick or paradoxical ; for , if I have Milton against me , I have Socrates on my side . It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to spe- culations upon life ; but the innovators ...
... censured for this digression as pe- dantick or paradoxical ; for , if I have Milton against me , I have Socrates on my side . It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to spe- culations upon life ; but the innovators ...
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第 93 頁 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
第 417 頁 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
第 77 頁 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
第 98 頁 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
第 154 頁 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
第 22 頁 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
第 174 頁 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
第 21 頁 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
第 104 頁 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
第 437 頁 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.