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Pàgina 82
... more to excite merriment than detesta- tion , and he detects follies rather than crimes . If any judgment be made , from his books , of his moral character , nothing will be found but purity and excellence 82 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... more to excite merriment than detesta- tion , and he detects follies rather than crimes . If any judgment be made , from his books , of his moral character , nothing will be found but purity and excellence 82 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pàgina 83
Samuel Johnson. character , nothing will be found but purity and excellence . Knowledge of mankind indeed , less extensive than that of Addison , will show , that to write , and to live , are very different . Many who praise virtue , do ...
Samuel Johnson. character , nothing will be found but purity and excellence . Knowledge of mankind indeed , less extensive than that of Addison , will show , that to write , and to live , are very different . Many who praise virtue , do ...
Pàgina 84
... excellence , he rarely sinks into dulness , and is still more rarely entangled in absurdity . He did not trust his powers enough to be negli- gent . There is in most of his compositions a calmness and equability , deliberate and ...
... excellence , he rarely sinks into dulness , and is still more rarely entangled in absurdity . He did not trust his powers enough to be negli- gent . There is in most of his compositions a calmness and equability , deliberate and ...
Pàgina 87
... excellence must be , the product of good - luck improved by genius . The thoughts are sometimes great , and sometimes tender ; the versification is easy and gay . There is doubtless some advantage in the shortness of the lines , which ...
... excellence must be , the product of good - luck improved by genius . The thoughts are sometimes great , and sometimes tender ; the versification is easy and gay . There is doubtless some advantage in the shortness of the lines , which ...
Pàgina 101
... excellence of a translator , such as may be read with pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not sufficiently vigorous to attain ...
... excellence of a translator , such as may be read with pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not sufficiently vigorous to attain ...
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Pàgina 17 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Pàgina 146 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Pàgina 161 - A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
Pàgina 220 - ... and relieved. Sir Richard Steele, having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character, promoted his interest with the utmost zeal, related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that J ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.
Pàgina 64 - The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design.
Pàgina 102 - It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism.
Pàgina 86 - About things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here excites or assuages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
Pàgina 182 - Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England ; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Pàgina 28 - ... was expressed by a loud hum, continued in proportion to their zeal or pleasure. When Burnet preached, part of his congregation hummed so loudly and so long, that he sat down to enjoy it, and rubbed his face with his handkerchief. When Sprat preached, he likewise was honoured with the like animating hum ; but he stretched out his hand to the congregation, and cried, " Peace, peace, I pray you peace.
Pàgina 18 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions, such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.