Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of Dryden and Pope, and Rasselas1879 |
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Page xiv
... rest meant the loss of money which he could not afford to do without . Johnson was not exactly a pessimist in the ordinary sense of the term . Life had been a very hard thing to him , and he declared its hardness with perfect ...
... rest meant the loss of money which he could not afford to do without . Johnson was not exactly a pessimist in the ordinary sense of the term . Life had been a very hard thing to him , and he declared its hardness with perfect ...
Page xv
... rest , Secure whate'er he gives , he gives the best . ' The singularity of this intellectual position , and its wide dif- ference from that of Voltaire , will be more fully considered below , when treating of Rasselas . But it is well ...
... rest , Secure whate'er he gives , he gives the best . ' The singularity of this intellectual position , and its wide dif- ference from that of Voltaire , will be more fully considered below , when treating of Rasselas . But it is well ...
Page xvi
... rest of mankind , by the enchantment of your address , and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my ...
... rest of mankind , by the enchantment of your address , and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my ...
Page xix
... rest and conversation , and began to mix much more than formerly in the best society . Under such influences his manners softened considerably , nor did his real tenderness of heart abate . It is said that of his pension he only spent ...
... rest and conversation , and began to mix much more than formerly in the best society . Under such influences his manners softened considerably , nor did his real tenderness of heart abate . It is said that of his pension he only spent ...
Page xx
... rest in 1780. The first edition of the Lives , which was published separately , came out in 1781 . Johnson was now rapidly approaching the close of his life . In 1783 appeared the second edition of his Lives of the Poets , with some few ...
... rest in 1780. The first edition of the Lives , which was published separately , came out in 1781 . Johnson was now rapidly approaching the close of his life . In 1783 appeared the second edition of his Lives of the Poets , with some few ...
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Page 417 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 400 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 454 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 253 - Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Page xvii - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page x - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 98 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
Page 102 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 392 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Page 415 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.