The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 من الصفحات |
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... died in the month of december of that year , had suffered great misfortunes in trade , he was driven out a Commoner of nature , and excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity . Having therefore not only a profession , but ...
... died in the month of december of that year , had suffered great misfortunes in trade , he was driven out a Commoner of nature , and excluded from the regular modes of profit and prosperity . Having therefore not only a profession , but ...
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... died on the 17th of March O. S. 1752 , and whom he continued to lament as long as he lived . " The Dictionary did not occupy his whole time : for , while he was pushing it forward , he fitted his Tragedy for the stage ; wrote the lives ...
... died on the 17th of March O. S. 1752 , and whom he continued to lament as long as he lived . " The Dictionary did not occupy his whole time : for , while he was pushing it forward , he fitted his Tragedy for the stage ; wrote the lives ...
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... died on the 13th of december 1784 full of resignation , strengthened by faith , and joyful in hope . For a just character of this great man our limits afford not room : we must therefore content our- selves with laying before our ...
... died on the 13th of december 1784 full of resignation , strengthened by faith , and joyful in hope . For a just character of this great man our limits afford not room : we must therefore content our- selves with laying before our ...
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... died at the Porch- house in Chertsey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age , and was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser . King Charles is said to have pronounced , " that Mr. Cowley had not left a better man behind him in ...
... died at the Porch- house in Chertsey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age , and was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser . King Charles is said to have pronounced , " that Mr. Cowley had not left a better man behind him in ...
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... died while he was an infant , but left him an " early " income of three thousand five hun dred pounds which may be reckoned more than equi valent to ten thousand of the present time . He was educated , by the care of his mother , at ...
... died while he was an infant , but left him an " early " income of three thousand five hun dred pounds which may be reckoned more than equi valent to ten thousand of the present time . He was educated , by the care of his mother , at ...
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الصفحة 291 - 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...
الصفحة 114 - 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.
الصفحة 63 - 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.
الصفحة 252 - 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.
الصفحة 78 - 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.
الصفحة 309 - 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.
الصفحة 78 - 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.
الصفحة 79 - 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.
الصفحة 112 - 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.
الصفحة 132 - 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.