The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.
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♦* With noifethey move, and from players* mouths re- ** bound, •* When their tongues dance to thy words' empty found, *• By thee infpir'd the rumbling verfcs roll, *^ As if that rhyme and bombaft Icnf a foul ;] •* And with that foul they fccm taught duty too ; ^* To huffing words does humble nonfenfe bow, ^* As if it would thy worthlefs worth enhance, •* To th' loweft rank,of fops thy praifc advance, ** To whom, byinftinft, all thy fluff is dear : ** Their loud claps echo to the theatre.
•• Fro...m breaths of fools thy commendation fpreads, ^* Fame fings thy praife with mouths of logger-heads.
" With noifc and laughing each thy fuftain greets, " *Tis clapt by choirs of empty-headed cits, •' Who have their tribute fent, and homage glv^n, •• As men in whifpers fend loud noife to Heav^ *^ Thus I have daubed him with his own^puddle : ^^ and now we are come from aboard his ^dancing, ^•mafk- Digitized by Google \ S30. D R Y D E N.
** mafldng, rebounding, breathing fleet : and, as if ^* we had landed at Gotham, we meet nothing but " fools and nonfenfc." Such was the criticifm to which the genius of Dryden could be reduced, between rage and tcrrour; rage with little provocation, and terrour with httlc danger.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
♦* With noifethey move, and from players* mouths re- ** bound, •* When their tongues dance to thy words' empty found, *• By thee infpir'd the rumbling verfcs roll, *^ As if that rhyme and bombaft Icnf a foul ;] •* And with that foul they fccm taught duty too ; ^* To huffing words does humble nonfenfe bow, ^* As if it would thy worthlefs worth enhance, •* To th' loweft rank,of fops thy praifc advance, ** To whom, byinftinft, all thy fluff is dear : ** Their loud claps echo to the theatre.
•• Fro...m breaths of fools thy commendation fpreads, ^* Fame fings thy praife with mouths of logger-heads.
" With noifc and laughing each thy fuftain greets, " *Tis clapt by choirs of empty-headed cits, •' Who have their tribute fent, and homage glv^n, •• As men in whifpers fend loud noife to Heav^ *^ Thus I have daubed him with his own^puddle : ^^ and now we are come from aboard his ^dancing, ^•mafk- Digitized by Google \ S30. D R Y D E N.
** mafldng, rebounding, breathing fleet : and, as if ^* we had landed at Gotham, we meet nothing but " fools and nonfenfc." Such was the criticifm to which the genius of Dryden could be reduced, between rage and tcrrour; rage with little provocation, and terrour with httlc danger.
What to read after The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.?
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