The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... verse on subjects of learning , that she put all the men in the country to flight , except the old parson , who declared himself much delighted with her com- pany , because she gave him opportunities to recol- lect the studies of his ...
... verse on subjects of learning , that she put all the men in the country to flight , except the old parson , who declared himself much delighted with her com- pany , because she gave him opportunities to recol- lect the studies of his ...
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... verse is capable , and should therefore be exactly kept in distichs , and generally in the last line of a para- graph , that the ear may rest without any sense of imperfection . But , to preserve the series of sounds untransposed in a ...
... verse is capable , and should therefore be exactly kept in distichs , and generally in the last line of a para- graph , that the ear may rest without any sense of imperfection . But , to preserve the series of sounds untransposed in a ...
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... verse . There are two lines in this passage more remark- ably unharmonious : This delicious place , For us too large ; where thy abundance wants Partakers , and uncrop'd falls to the ground . Here the third pair of syllables in the ...
... verse . There are two lines in this passage more remark- ably unharmonious : This delicious place , For us too large ; where thy abundance wants Partakers , and uncrop'd falls to the ground . Here the third pair of syllables in the ...
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... verse , have their accents retrograde or inverted ; the first syllable being strong or acute , and the second weak . The detriment which the measure suffers by this inversion of the accents is sometimes less perceptible , when the verses ...
... verse , have their accents retrograde or inverted ; the first syllable being strong or acute , and the second weak . The detriment which the measure suffers by this inversion of the accents is sometimes less perceptible , when the verses ...
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... verse may be melodious and pleasing , it is necessary , not only that the words be so ranged as that the accent may fall on its proper place , but that the syllables themselves be so chosen as to flow smoothly into one another . This is ...
... verse may be melodious and pleasing , it is necessary , not only that the words be so ranged as that the accent may fall on its proper place , but that the syllables themselves be so chosen as to flow smoothly into one another . This is ...
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Page 403 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 134 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 92 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 143 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 401 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 373 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 98 - Modesty itself, if it is praised, will be envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Page 393 - But will arise, and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his worshippers.
Page 117 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 58 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.