LivesSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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4. oldal
... letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards Earl of Arlington , from April to December in 1650 , are pre- served in " Miscellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whos ...
... letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards Earl of Arlington , from April to December in 1650 , are pre- served in " Miscellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whos ...
50. oldal
... letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible answer , in ...
... letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible answer , in ...
56. oldal
... letter , but had no answer ; he sent more with the same success . It could be alledged that letters miscarry ; he therefore dis- patched a messenger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back with some ...
... letter , but had no answer ; he sent more with the same success . It could be alledged that letters miscarry ; he therefore dis- patched a messenger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back with some ...
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... letter to Hartlib , hrad declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Lav French , required that Elwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would ...
... letter to Hartlib , hrad declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Lav French , required that Elwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would ...
111. oldal
... letter to Sir Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising young noblemen in Ireland . He has paraphrased a Psalm admirably , and a scene of Pastor Fido very finely ...
... letter to Sir Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising young noblemen in Ireland . He has paraphrased a Psalm admirably , and a scene of Pastor Fido very finely ...
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565. oldal - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
559. oldal - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
11. oldal - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
82. oldal - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
218. oldal - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
559. oldal - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
205. oldal - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
524. oldal - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
36. oldal - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
560. oldal - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...