The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 من الصفحات |
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... success . The principal booksellers in London having determined to publish a body of English Poetry , Johnson was prevailed upon to write the Lives of the Poets , and give a character of the works of each . This task he undertook with ...
... success . The principal booksellers in London having determined to publish a body of English Poetry , Johnson was prevailed upon to write the Lives of the Poets , and give a character of the works of each . This task he undertook with ...
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... stage , he brought it forward under the title of " the Cutter of Coleman street , " and it was badly received which ill success he did not bear , as Dryden says , + C ; " with so much firmness as might have been ex- COWLEY . 25.
... stage , he brought it forward under the title of " the Cutter of Coleman street , " and it was badly received which ill success he did not bear , as Dryden says , + C ; " with so much firmness as might have been ex- COWLEY . 25.
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... success , he again more particularly recurs to the poet who is the present subject of consideration . " As much of Waller's reputation was owen to the softness and smoothness of his numbers , it is proper to consider those minute ...
... success , he again more particularly recurs to the poet who is the present subject of consideration . " As much of Waller's reputation was owen to the softness and smoothness of his numbers , it is proper to consider those minute ...
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... success is said to have shortened Sal- masius's life , for he died at Spa , September 3 , 1653 . Milton had now been blind for some time , but his vigour of intellect was such that he was still able to discharge his office . After ...
... success is said to have shortened Sal- masius's life , for he died at Spa , September 3 , 1653 . Milton had now been blind for some time , but his vigour of intellect was such that he was still able to discharge his office . After ...
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... successful play by Elkanah Settle , appeared the " Mock Astrologer , " a comedy , " Tyrannic Love , or the Virgin Martyr , " a tragedy in rhyme , and the two parts of the " Conquest of Grenada . " Then came " Marriage Alamode , " The ...
... successful play by Elkanah Settle , appeared the " Mock Astrologer , " a comedy , " Tyrannic Love , or the Virgin Martyr , " a tragedy in rhyme , and the two parts of the " Conquest of Grenada . " Then came " Marriage Alamode , " The ...
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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.