The Works of Samuel Johnson, כרך 10L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 41
עמוד 10
... filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about about town was remarkable on this occasion ; and it 10 SMIT H.
... filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about about town was remarkable on this occasion ; and it 10 SMIT H.
עמוד 20
... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
עמוד 21
... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and ele- gant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells us ...
... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and ele- gant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells us ...
עמוד 25
... play a prologue from Addi- son , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation ...
... play a prologue from Addi- son , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation ...
עמוד 63
... play does not sufficiently cor- respond with the behaviour of Calista , who at last shews no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expresses more shame ...
... play does not sufficiently cor- respond with the behaviour of Calista , who at last shews no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expresses more shame ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared battle of Ramillies Beggar's Opera Cato censure character Congreve considered contempt conversation court criticism death declared Dryden duke earl elegant endeavoured esteem excellence expence favour Fenton fortune friends genius honour imagined Juba justly kind king William Kit-cat Club lady letter likewise lived London lord chamberlain lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel mankind Matthew Prior ment mentioned merit mind nature neglect ness never observed occasion once opinion passion performance perhaps play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise Prior publick published Queen racter reason received regard remarkable reputation resentment Savage Savage's says seems seldom Sempronius sent shew shewn Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes spect Spectator Spence Steele supposed Syphax Tatler Theophilus Cibber thought Tickell tion told topicks tragedy Tyrconnel verses virtue Whig write written wrote
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 279 - ... distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind is a misery.
עמוד 197 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness 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.
עמוד 26 - 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. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then...
עמוד 26 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
עמוד 179 - He had infused into it much knowledge, and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity ; he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity.
עמוד 402 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 106 - He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die — 1672-1719 DEATH AND CHARACTER 347 in which he alludes, as he told Dr.
עמוד 197 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
עמוד 363 - On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of The Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
עמוד 110 - Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.