The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Alexander V. Blake, 1840 |
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עמוד 3
... elegance of language have deservedly to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence ...
... elegance of language have deservedly to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence ...
עמוד 6
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
עמוד 8
... elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copious- ness of sentiment . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the ...
... elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copious- ness of sentiment . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the ...
עמוד 10
... elegance of dress , and therefore miss the notice and the praise which are often gained by those who think less , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts . That a mistress beloved is fairer in idea than in reality , is by Cowley ...
... elegance of dress , and therefore miss the notice and the praise which are often gained by those who think less , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts . That a mistress beloved is fairer in idea than in reality , is by Cowley ...
עמוד 13
... elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connexion is supplied with great perspicuity ; and thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown to- gether by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though ...
... elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connexion is supplied with great perspicuity ; and thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown to- gether by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 275 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
עמוד 279 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
עמוד 96 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
עמוד 148 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; 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.
עמוד 8 - ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before.
עמוד 21 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection, or incidental meditation.
עמוד 46 - He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hinderance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
עמוד 211 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 252 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...
עמוד 111 - Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind.