Letters ... written between the years 1784 and 1807 [ed. by A. Constable].1811 |
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... style of your address to me , that you estimate mine too highly , I feel disposed to be , what , I trust , I have not often been , an ab- solute egotist ; for I had rather voluntarily reveal to you the scantiness of my stores , than ...
... style of your address to me , that you estimate mine too highly , I feel disposed to be , what , I trust , I have not often been , an ab- solute egotist ; for I had rather voluntarily reveal to you the scantiness of my stores , than ...
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... style . Upon a stock of knowledge so limited , you see how impossible it is that I should accept your proposal of contributing to the Analytic Review . The sketch of its plan is extremely well drawn up ; and if only men of ability shall ...
... style . Upon a stock of knowledge so limited , you see how impossible it is that I should accept your proposal of contributing to the Analytic Review . The sketch of its plan is extremely well drawn up ; and if only men of ability shall ...
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... style , which the other detests . What then remains but to settle these wide extremes of differing tastes , not by reference to the opinion of any third individual , but by ex- amining whether they are in frequent use with various ...
... style , which the other detests . What then remains but to settle these wide extremes of differing tastes , not by reference to the opinion of any third individual , but by ex- amining whether they are in frequent use with various ...
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... style ! Have we not enough of his attempting to throw them over our poetic taste , in that unjust , and because ingenious so much the more mis- chievous , work , the Lives of the Poets ? I hope Doctor Croft will not take up that ar ...
... style ! Have we not enough of his attempting to throw them over our poetic taste , in that unjust , and because ingenious so much the more mis- chievous , work , the Lives of the Poets ? I hope Doctor Croft will not take up that ar ...
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... style . What an enthusiast you are to London ! I wish you do not say a great deal too much for that im- perial city . For her greatness perhaps you can- not , but for her justice I think you do . How does Johnson esteem her ? let us ...
... style . What an enthusiast you are to London ! I wish you do not say a great deal too much for that im- perial city . For her greatness perhaps you can- not , but for her justice I think you do . How does Johnson esteem her ? let us ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adieu admired amidst appears bard beautiful blank verse Cary charming compositions confess critical dear delight Dr Johnson Dryden Eartham elegance Eloisa to Abelard eloquence Epic Poetry excellence express Eyam fame fancy father favour feel genius Gentleman's Magazine give glow grace gratified Gray happiness Hayley Hayley's heart HERBERT CROFT honour hope ideas imagination ingenious interest Italian poetry Johnson Knowles Lady language late leisure less LETTER Lichfield literary living Lucy Porter Lycidas lyric Milton mind Miss Monody muse nature never numbers opinion passages Petrarch Pindar Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Pope powers praise present prose recollect rhyme Shakespeare shew sister Solihul sonnet Sophia speak spirit style sublime superior sure sweet talents taste thing thou tion verse vulgarism Weston Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish wonder word writings youth
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Página 128 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 303 - LAWRENCE ! of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining ? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily' and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun.
Página 162 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save. But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn ! O, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave...
Página 267 - For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Página 346 - imp their eagle wings," a delighted spectator and auditor of their efforts. It was here, that Miss Molly Aston was frequently a visitor in the family of her brother-in-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the...
Página 321 - So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 103 - Johnson had always a metaphysic passion for one princess or other: first, the rustic Lucy Porter, before he married her nauseous mother; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew; and, lastly, the more charming Mrs. Thrale, with the beauty of the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant forsaking his nature...
Página 303 - The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise. To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
Página 103 - This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from morn to night, by incessant homage. The two first ingredients are certainly oddly heterogeneous ; but Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This is the reason why folk are never weary of talking, reading, and writing about...
Página 58 - Shocked at the unfeeling rudeness he thus recorded of himself, I replied, that I was surprised any person should obtrude their writings upon his attention; adding, that if I could write as well as Milton or Gray, I should think the best fate to be desired for my compositions was exemption from his notice. I expected a sharp sarcasm in return, but he only rolled his large head in silence. Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas