The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, 第 3 卷G. Cowie, 1825 |
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... expression which is now dubious formerly deter- minate . How much the mutilation of ancient history has taken away from the beauty of poetical performances , may be conjectured from the light which a lucky commentator sometimes effuses ...
... expression which is now dubious formerly deter- minate . How much the mutilation of ancient history has taken away from the beauty of poetical performances , may be conjectured from the light which a lucky commentator sometimes effuses ...
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... expressing them ; and he that has once accumulated learning , is next to consider , how he shall most widely diffuse and most agreeably impart it . A ready man is made by conversation . He that buries himself among his manuscripts ...
... expressing them ; and he that has once accumulated learning , is next to consider , how he shall most widely diffuse and most agreeably impart it . A ready man is made by conversation . He that buries himself among his manuscripts ...
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... expressions equally proper , till he could not fix his choice but by con- sulting his friends ; that he will run from one end of Paris to the other , for the opportunity of reading a period to a nice ear ; that if a single line is heard ...
... expressions equally proper , till he could not fix his choice but by con- sulting his friends ; that he will run from one end of Paris to the other , for the opportunity of reading a period to a nice ear ; that if a single line is heard ...
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... expressions are familiar and his thoughts congenial ; and , perhaps , truth is often more successfully propagated by men of moderate abilities , who , adopting the opinions of others , have no care but to L 2 . N ° 137 . 139 THE ...
... expressions are familiar and his thoughts congenial ; and , perhaps , truth is often more successfully propagated by men of moderate abilities , who , adopting the opinions of others , have no care but to L 2 . N ° 137 . 139 THE ...
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... expressions present themselves at the first summons ; but such happiness , the greatest genius does not always obtain ; and common writers know it only to such a degree , as to credit its possi- bility . Composition is , for the most ...
... expressions present themselves at the first summons ; but such happiness , the greatest genius does not always obtain ; and common writers know it only to such a degree , as to credit its possi- bility . Composition is , for the most ...
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第 202 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 173 頁 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
第 217 頁 - ... is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
第 455 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 270 頁 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress, are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
第 274 頁 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know.
第 507 頁 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early : he was one of the first £riends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. . He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was, a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
第 223 頁 - ... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang...
第 635 頁 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
第 203 頁 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.