Johnson's Life of Swift, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland1894 |
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Pàgina xxii
... obtained from examining four passages ( each of 200 lines ) in each of the works mentioned : - : - In the " Rambler : " 30.5 19 per cent . of words of classical origin . 99 99 In the " Lives of the Poets : " " 28.7 per cent . of words ...
... obtained from examining four passages ( each of 200 lines ) in each of the works mentioned : - : - In the " Rambler : " 30.5 19 per cent . of words of classical origin . 99 99 In the " Lives of the Poets : " " 28.7 per cent . of words ...
Pàgina 2
... obtained his degree at last by special favour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he was much ashamed , and shame had its proper effect in pro- ducing reformation ...
... obtained his degree at last by special favour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he was much ashamed , and shame had its proper effect in pro- ducing reformation ...
Pàgina 4
... obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment , in ...
... obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment , in ...
Pàgina 5
... obtained , from King William , a promise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift dedi- cated to the King the posthumous works with which he was intrusted ...
... obtained , from King William , a promise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift dedi- cated to the King the posthumous works with which he was intrusted ...
Pàgina 15
... obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland 10 more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might reconcile Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which ...
... obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland 10 more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might reconcile Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke , who began to look on one another with malevolence , which ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina xvii - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Pàgina 23 - Travels ;" a production so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity.
Pàgina 35 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.
Pàgina 34 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in, " Heyday, gentlemen (says the Doctor), what's the meaning of this visit ? How came you to leave all the great Lords that you are so fond of, to come hither to see a poor Dean ? " — " Because we would rather see you than any of them.
Pàgina 35 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his letters, an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another. This transgression of regularity was by himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold anything by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what...
Pàgina 10 - The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks attainable, he proposes to secure by instituting an academy ; the decrees of which every man would have been willing, and many would have been proud, to disobey, and which, being renewed by successive elections, would in a short time have differed from itself. Swift now attained the zenith of his political importance : he published (1712) the " Conduct of the Allies," ten days before the Parliament assembled.
Pàgina v - I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.
Pàgina 30 - That he has in his works no metaphor, as has been said, is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice.
Pàgina 38 - In the poetical works of Dr. Swift there is not much upon which the critic can exercise his powers. They are often humorous, almost always light, and have the qualities which recommend such compositions, easiness and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet; all his verses exemplify his own definition of a good style — they consist...
Pàgina 8 - ... in all points whereon to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?