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| Winwood |
It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly, the style of Addison as nerveless and feeble, because it has not the strength and energy of that of Johnson…. Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that he insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison’s style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson’s, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished; and such is the melody of his periods*, so much do they captivate the ear, and seize upon the attention, that there is scarcely any writer, however inconsiderable, who does not aim, in some degree, at the same species of excellence.* sentences
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| Samuel Johnson (1709--1784) |
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| King Charles I |
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| Queen Henrietta |
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| Oliver Cromwell Wanted A New Order |
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| Charles I Dismissed This and Made Secret Plans to Bring in Foreign Military Support. Charles I Was Beheaded in 1649. |
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| Cromwell Wins but Increasingly Loses Parliamentary Control. He Gives Himself Full Executive Powers. |
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| Cromwell Estates Those Powers to His Son, Richard, Who Rules for Less Than a Year Before Resigning in 1659. |
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| Sorry, Cromwell: Charles II in 1660 |
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| Oliver Cromwell (1599--1658) |
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
HW: Journal 15: Please compose two lines of rich
coastal imagery from your memory.
Here's an Epiphany art march: |
| Mid 500's (AD, of course) |
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| Mid 1500's (El Greco) |
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| Mid 1600s (Murillo) |
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| 1800s (Tissot) |
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| 2004 (Artist Brian Whelan) |
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| Can you name the characters from the song? |
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| A Twelfth Night Celebration |
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| A Scene from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night |
