The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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Page 43
... affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocu- larity : but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an ...
... affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocu- larity : but he apparently flattered his own arrogance by an ...
Page 63
... this was attempted in a clan " destine manner , with the utmost falsehood and 66 66 calumny , but found that all this was done by a " little affected hypocrite , who had nothing in his 66 " mouth at the same time , but truth POPE . 63.
... this was attempted in a clan " destine manner , with the utmost falsehood and 66 66 calumny , but found that all this was done by a " little affected hypocrite , who had nothing in his 66 " mouth at the same time , but truth POPE . 63.
Page 64
... affects the dictato- " rian air , he plainly shews , that at the same time " he is under the rod and , while he pretends to 66 give laws to others , is a pedantic slave to au- " thority and opinion . Thirdly , he hath , like " school ...
... affects the dictato- " rian air , he plainly shews , that at the same time " he is under the rod and , while he pretends to 66 give laws to others , is a pedantic slave to au- " thority and opinion . Thirdly , he hath , like " school ...
Page 112
... affected to despise . He is proud that his book was presented to the King and Queen by the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they read it before ; he is proud that the edition was taken off by the nobility and ...
... affected to despise . He is proud that his book was presented to the King and Queen by the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they read it before ; he is proud that the edition was taken off by the nobility and ...
Page 139
... affected to insult the great . The severity of this satire left Cibber no longer any patience . He had confidence enough in his own powers to believe that he could disturb the quiet of his adversary , and doubtless did not want ...
... affected to insult the great . The severity of this satire left Cibber no longer any patience . He had confidence enough in his own powers to believe that he could disturb the quiet of his adversary , and doubtless did not want ...
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Page 126 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself; but you express me better than I could express myself.
Page 267 - 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 waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Page 178 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 184 - Bentley, who had purposely avoided saying any thing about Homer, pretended not to understand him, and asked, ' Books ! books ! what books ?' — ' My Homer,' replied Pope, ' which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — ' Oh,' said Bentley, ' ay, now I recollect — your translation : — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope ; but you must not call it Homer.
Page 379 - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
Page 388 - I have made public good the rule of my conduct. I never gave counsels which I did not at the time think the best. I have seen that I was sometimes in the wrong, but I did not err designedly. I have endeavoured, in private life, to do all the good in my power, and never for a moment could indulge malicious or unjust designs upon any person whatsoever.
Page 236 - The great defect of The Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images and thoughts " both their lustre and their shade:" such as invest them with splendour, through...
Page 284 - As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 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.
Page 147 - Bolingbroke, however, was not yet satisfied ; his thirst of vengeance efccited him to blast the memory of the man over whom he had wept in his last struggles; and he employed Mallet, another friend of Pope, to tell the tale to the public with all its aggravations. Warburton, whose heart was warm with his legacy, and tender by the recent separation...
Page 379 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.