The Works of Samuel Johnson, כרך 10Nichols and Son, 1816 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 86
עמוד 3
... received from the best authors he read , which it always preserved in their primitive strength and amiable order . He had a quickness of apprehension , and vivacity of understanding , which easily took in and sur , mounted the most ...
... received from the best authors he read , which it always preserved in their primitive strength and amiable order . He had a quickness of apprehension , and vivacity of understanding , which easily took in and sur , mounted the most ...
עמוד 23
... received from Smith , that Clarendon's History was , in its publication , corrupted by Aldrich , Smalridge , and Atterbury ; and that Smith was employed to forge and insert the alterations . This story was published triumphantly by Old ...
... received from Smith , that Clarendon's History was , in its publication , corrupted by Aldrich , Smalridge , and Atterbury ; and that Smith was employed to forge and insert the alterations . This story was published triumphantly by Old ...
עמוד 26
... received my notions with con- tempt . 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 en- dured me . He had mingled with the gay world ...
... received my notions with con- tempt . 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 en- dured me . He had mingled with the gay world ...
עמוד 38
... received the last proof of his master's con- fidence , by being appointed one of the commissioners for ecclesiastical affairs . On the critical day , when the Declaration distinguished the true sons of the Church of England , he stood ...
... received the last proof of his master's con- fidence , by being appointed one of the commissioners for ecclesiastical affairs . On the critical day , when the Declaration distinguished the true sons of the Church of England , he stood ...
עמוד 50
... received by the new ministry as a valuable reinforcement . When the earl of Oxford was told that Dr. Parnell waited among the crowd in the outer room , he went by the persuasion of Swift , with his treasurer's staff in his hand , to en ...
... received by the new ministry as a valuable reinforcement . When the earl of Oxford was told that Dr. Parnell waited among the crowd in the outer room , he went by the persuasion of Swift , with his treasurer's staff in his hand , to en ...
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עמוד 208 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
עמוד 212 - There is something in the poetical Arcadia so remote from known reality and speculative possibility, that we can never support its representation through a long work. A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers and purling rivulets, through five acts? Such scenes please Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life ; but will be for the most part thrown away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned.
עמוד 107 - was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room, and dictate it into language, with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated.
עמוד 25 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
עמוד 207 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. — When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
עמוד 139 - ... always equable and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes...
עמוד 113 - To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled? because she longs to launch; an act which was never hindered by a bridle : and whither will she launch ? into a nobler strain. She is in the first line a horse, in the second a boat; and the care of the poet is to keep his horse or his boat from singing. The next composition is the far-famed Campaign, which Dr. Warton has termed a " gazette in rhyme," with harshness not often used by the good nature of his criticism.
עמוד 108 - In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. It is not unlikely that Addison was first seduced to excess by the manumission which he obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours. He that feels oppression from the presence of those to whom he knows himself superior will desire to sot loose his powers of conversation ; and who that ever asked succours from Bacchus was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary...
עמוד 108 - It is said when Addison had suffered any vexation from the countess, he withdrew the company from Button's house. From the coffee-house he went again to a tavern, where he often sat late, and drank too much wine.
עמוד 222 - I assured him, that I did not at all take it ill of Mr. Tickell that he was going to publish his translation; that he certainly had as much right to translate any author as myself; and that publishing both was entering on a fair stage.