The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, المجلد 2A. V. Blake, 1843 |
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... 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 posi- tions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
... 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 posi- tions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
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... effect , at least to our ears , will ap- pear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language : Where honour or where conscience does not bind , No ...
... effect , at least to our ears , will ap- pear by a passage , in which every reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language : Where honour or where conscience does not bind , No ...
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... effect . his side ; and that , if he left versification yet im- provable , he left likewise from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled succeeding poets to improve it . Of triplets in his Davideis he makes no use , and ...
... effect . his side ; and that , if he left versification yet im- provable , he left likewise from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled succeeding poets to improve it . Of triplets in his Davideis he makes no use , and ...
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... effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly sticks at words . A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , To make trauslations and translators too . They but preserve the ...
... effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly sticks at words . A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , To make trauslations and translators too . They but preserve the ...
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... effect appears in his writings . His scheme Published 1632.-R. One of his objections to academical education , as it was then conducted , is , that men designed for orders in the church were permitted to act plays , " writhing and ...
... effect appears in his writings . His scheme Published 1632.-R. One of his objections to academical education , as it was then conducted , is , that men designed for orders in the church were permitted to act plays , " writhing and ...
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الصفحة 252 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
الصفحة 148 - 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, HUGHES.
الصفحة 268 - His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the
الصفحة 259 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
الصفحة 268 - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cow-ley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows...
الصفحة 301 - These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments, they strike rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. "Double, double, toil and trouble.
الصفحة 172 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the ' Beggar's Opera.' He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word...
الصفحة 234 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. 'For,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
الصفحة 8 - From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
الصفحة 8 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without...