The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and SmollettJ. Nichol, 1855 - 254 pagini |
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... genius . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , Staffordshire , on the 18th of September 1709 , and was baptized the same day . His father was Michael Johnson , a bookseller and stationer , and his mother , Sarah Ford . Samuel was the ...
... genius . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , Staffordshire , on the 18th of September 1709 , and was baptized the same day . His father was Michael Johnson , a bookseller and stationer , and his mother , Sarah Ford . Samuel was the ...
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... genius ; and he had , moreover , under all his indolence and all his melancholy , an indomitable resolution , which needed only to be roused to make all ob- stacles melt before it . He knew that he was great and strong , and would yet ...
... genius ; and he had , moreover , under all his indolence and all his melancholy , an indomitable resolution , which needed only to be roused to make all ob- stacles melt before it . He knew that he was great and strong , and would yet ...
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... genius , but at first he met with mortifying disappointment . He made one influential friend , however , in an officer named Henry Hervey , of whom he said , " He was a vicious man , but very kind to me ; were you to call a dog Hervey ...
... genius , but at first he met with mortifying disappointment . He made one influential friend , however , in an officer named Henry Hervey , of whom he said , " He was a vicious man , but very kind to me ; were you to call a dog Hervey ...
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... genius can this be ? " The poem went to a second edition in a week ; and Pope himself , who had read it with pleasure , when told that its author was an obscure man named Johnson , replied , " He will soon be déterré . " Famous as he ...
... genius can this be ? " The poem went to a second edition in a week ; and Pope himself , who had read it with pleasure , when told that its author was an obscure man named Johnson , replied , " He will soon be déterré . " Famous as he ...
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... genius . In 1749 , he published his " Vanity of Human Wishes , " for which he received the sum of fifteen guineas , -a miserable recompense for a poem which Byron pronounces " sublime , " and which is as true as it is magnificent in ...
... genius . In 1749 , he published his " Vanity of Human Wishes , " for which he received the sum of fifteen guineas , -a miserable recompense for a poem which Byron pronounces " sublime , " and which is as true as it is magnificent in ...
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Pagina 201 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 158 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Pagina 175 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Pagina 30 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee: 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. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Pagina 161 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease...
Pagina 177 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Pagina 200 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Pagina 166 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Pagina 165 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Pagina 202 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...