The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 oldal |
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... present result of our labours to the attention of the public . We trust it will be found , on examination , to comprise , in a condensed form , all that is essential on the subject . Every Poet of eminence is here included , and the ...
... present result of our labours to the attention of the public . We trust it will be found , on examination , to comprise , in a condensed form , all that is essential on the subject . Every Poet of eminence is here included , and the ...
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... present praise , and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight in all the chan- ges of human manners , he contented himself with à deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright ...
... present praise , and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight in all the chan- ges of human manners , he contented himself with à deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright ...
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... present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . " His diction was , in his own time , censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their ...
... present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . " His diction was , in his own time , censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their ...
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... present , lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has , indeed , many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and ...
... present , lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has , indeed , many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and ...
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... present time . He was educated , by the care of his mother , at Eton , and removed afterwards to King's College in Cambridge . He was sent to parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and often frequented the court ...
... present time . He was educated , by the care of his mother , at Eton , and removed afterwards to King's College in Cambridge . He was sent to parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and often frequented the court ...
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291. oldal - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
114. oldal - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
63. oldal - But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them.
252. oldal - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
78. oldal - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
309. oldal - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
78. oldal - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.
79. oldal - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
112. oldal - Cato' it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion :" here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
132. oldal - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.