The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 3Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 28
Seite 5
... imagine . The history of Greece could not pass over him , when it comes to touch upon the people of Athens ; this alone might procure him respect , even when he was not consi- dered as a comick poet . But when his writings are taken ...
... imagine . The history of Greece could not pass over him , when it comes to touch upon the people of Athens ; this alone might procure him respect , even when he was not consi- dered as a comick poet . But when his writings are taken ...
Seite 51
... imagine , that he was one day to produce those master - pieces of tragedy , which his muse dis- played afterwards with so much splendour ; and yet less did he imagine , that his comick pieces , which , for want of any that were ...
... imagine , that he was one day to produce those master - pieces of tragedy , which his muse dis- played afterwards with so much splendour ; and yet less did he imagine , that his comick pieces , which , for want of any that were ...
Seite 73
... imagine , that this odd species of the drama rose at length to somewhat a higher character , since we are told that Plato the philosopher laid the Mimi of Sophron under his pillow , and they were found there after his death . But in ...
... imagine , that this odd species of the drama rose at length to somewhat a higher character , since we are told that Plato the philosopher laid the Mimi of Sophron under his pillow , and they were found there after his death . But in ...
Seite 75
... imagine , at least in my opinion , that the Pantomimes did literally repre- sent regular tragedies or comedies by the mere mo- tions of their bodies . We may justly determinė , notwithstanding all their agility , their representations ...
... imagine , at least in my opinion , that the Pantomimes did literally repre- sent regular tragedies or comedies by the mere mo- tions of their bodies . We may justly determinė , notwithstanding all their agility , their representations ...
Seite 113
... imagine , that I was , during this state of abandoned libertinism , so fully convinced of the fitness of my own conduct , as to be free from uneasiness . I knew very well , that I might justly be deemed the pest of society , and that ...
... imagine , that I was , during this state of abandoned libertinism , so fully convinced of the fitness of my own conduct , as to be free from uneasiness . I knew very well , that I might justly be deemed the pest of society , and that ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adventures amusements ancient appear Aristo Aristophanes Athenians Athens beauty censure CHAP character comedy comick common considered Cratinus danger delight desire discovered domestick easily elegance endeavoured enjoy equally Eupolis Euripides evil expect eyes favour fear felicity folly fortune friends genius gratifications Greek comedy happiness happy valley honour hope human imagination imitation Imlac inclined kind knowledge labour learned less likewise live look mankind manner Menander ment merriment mind misery Moliere nature Nekayah never NUMB observed once opinion OVID passed passions Pekuah perhaps perpetual phanes Plautus pleased pleasure Plutarch poet Posidippus praise present prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess publick racter Rasselas reader reason received reputation rest ridicule says scarcely sentiments Serenus sleep Socrates solitude sometimes Sophocles success suffered surely taste Terence terrour thing thought Tibullus tion tragedy tragick truth virtue weary writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 366 - To live according to nature, is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects ; to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity ; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.
Seite 320 - is much to be desired; but I am afraid that no man will be able to breathe in these regions of speculation and tranquillity.
Seite 304 - ... 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 more.
Seite 128 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Seite 311 - The old man was surprised at this new species of affliction, and knew not what to reply, yet was unwilling to be silent. "Sir," said he, "if you had seen the miseries of the world, you would know how to value your present state." "Now," said the prince, "you have given me something to desire; I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness.
Seite 385 - No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring : no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
Seite 436 - No disease of the imagination,' answered Imlac, 'is so difficult of cure as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other. If fancy presents images not moral or religious, the mind drives them away when they give it pain, but when...
Seite 331 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
Seite 309 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.