The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Bind 3Bell & Bradfute ... [and 3 others] and S. Campbell, New York, 1806 |
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Side 81
... tragedy was sufficient to em . ploy all my attention , that I might give a com plete representation of that kind of writing , which was most esteemed by the Athenians and the wiser Greeks * , particularly by Socrates , who set no value ...
... tragedy was sufficient to em . ploy all my attention , that I might give a com plete representation of that kind of writing , which was most esteemed by the Athenians and the wiser Greeks * , particularly by Socrates , who set no value ...
Side 82
... tragedy , I did not at least sketch a draught of the comedy . I then considered , that it was not wholly im- possible to surmount , at least in part , the difficul- ties which had stopt me , and to go somewhat far- ther than the learned ...
... tragedy , I did not at least sketch a draught of the comedy . I then considered , that it was not wholly im- possible to surmount , at least in part , the difficul- ties which had stopt me , and to go somewhat far- ther than the learned ...
Side 85
... tragedy , and there is an appearance that we take these two words in a more extensive meaning ; they had both the same original , that is , they began among the festivals of the vintage , and were not distinguished from one another but ...
... tragedy , and there is an appearance that we take these two words in a more extensive meaning ; they had both the same original , that is , they began among the festivals of the vintage , and were not distinguished from one another but ...
Side 86
... tragedy , in which he carried about in carts , " players smeared with the dregs of wine , of whom " some sung and others declaimed . " This was the first attempt both of tragedy and comedy ; for Thespis made use only of one speaker ...
... tragedy , in which he carried about in carts , " players smeared with the dregs of wine , of whom " some sung and others declaimed . " This was the first attempt both of tragedy and comedy ; for Thespis made use only of one speaker ...
Side 87
... tragedy , and by consequence tragedy was its parent . It was formed in imitation of Eschylus , the inventor of the tragick drama ; or , to go yet higher into antiquity , had its original from Homer , who was the guide of Eschylus . For ...
... tragedy , and by consequence tragedy was its parent . It was formed in imitation of Eschylus , the inventor of the tragick drama ; or , to go yet higher into antiquity , had its original from Homer , who was the guide of Eschylus . For ...
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Side 210 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Side 177 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Side 189 - Tis much he dares ; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
Side 339 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or...
Side 179 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Side 183 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Side 290 - ... with rancour, and their tongues with- censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains,...
Side 218 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice, till it was heard no •ore. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers; every blast shook spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.
Side 248 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
Side 175 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.