The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's LifeDavid Allinson, 1816 - 140 pagini |
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Pagina 93
... fair , ye wise , ye brave ! ' Tis yours to crown desert , beyond the grave , PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE GOOD - NATURED MAN , 1769 . PREST by the load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind , With cool ...
... fair , ye wise , ye brave ! ' Tis yours to crown desert , beyond the grave , PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE GOOD - NATURED MAN , 1769 . PREST by the load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind , With cool ...
Pagina 95
... fair the piece displays , Approve it only - ' tis too late to praise . If want of skill , or want of care appear , Forbear to hiss - the poet cannot hear— By all like him must praise and blame be found , At best a fleeting dream , or ...
... fair the piece displays , Approve it only - ' tis too late to praise . If want of skill , or want of care appear , Forbear to hiss - the poet cannot hear— By all like him must praise and blame be found , At best a fleeting dream , or ...
Pagina 102
... fair , where'er we rove , What dreary prospects round us rise , The naked hill , the leafless grove , The hoary ground , the frowning skies . Not only through the wasted plain , Stern Winter , 102 JOHNSON'S POEMS . The Winter's Walk.
... fair , where'er we rove , What dreary prospects round us rise , The naked hill , the leafless grove , The hoary ground , the frowning skies . Not only through the wasted plain , Stern Winter , 102 JOHNSON'S POEMS . The Winter's Walk.
Pagina 104
... fair as fine . " Fate , snatch away the bright disguise , And let the goddess trust her eyes . " Thus blindly prayed the fretful fair , And fate malicious , heard the prayer ; But , 104 JOHNSON'S POEMS . Epigram on George II Colley ...
... fair as fine . " Fate , snatch away the bright disguise , And let the goddess trust her eyes . " Thus blindly prayed the fretful fair , And fate malicious , heard the prayer ; But , 104 JOHNSON'S POEMS . Epigram on George II Colley ...
Pagina 105
... fair , Henceforth shall form one common prayer ; And love and hate alike implore The skies " That Stella mourn no more . " TO STELLA . NOT the soft sighs of vernal gales , The fragrance of the flowery vales , The murmurs of the crystal ...
... fair , Henceforth shall form one common prayer ; And love and hate alike implore The skies " That Stella mourn no more . " TO STELLA . NOT the soft sighs of vernal gales , The fragrance of the flowery vales , The murmurs of the crystal ...
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Pagina 25 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 24 - When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the 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...
Pagina 87 - 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?
Pagina 64 - On Thames's banks in silent thought we stood, Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood; Struck with the seat that gave Eliza birth, We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth; In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view: Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce and the dread of Spain, Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, Or English honour grew a standing jest.
Pagina 74 - observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Pagina 118 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Pagina 68 - With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter, ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. * How, when competitors, like these, contend, Can surly virtue hope to fix a friend...
Pagina 109 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish poured his groan, And lonely want retired to die.
Pagina 82 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Pagina 24 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...