The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, כרך 1 |
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עמוד 30
It is urged by Dr . Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which
makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have
remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great
pleasure of ...
It is urged by Dr . Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which
makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have
remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great
pleasure of ...
עמוד 220
This , however , is a composition of great excellence in its kind , in which the
familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn , and the grave with the
hụmorous ; in which metre has neither weakened the force , nor clouded the
perspicuity of ...
This , however , is a composition of great excellence in its kind , in which the
familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn , and the grave with the
hụmorous ; in which metre has neither weakened the force , nor clouded the
perspicuity of ...
עמוד 248
... is certainly a master - piece : but Mr . Smith ' s Pocockius is of the sublimer kind
, though , like Waller ' s writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most
delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised , I do not remember to
...
... is certainly a master - piece : but Mr . Smith ' s Pocockius is of the sublimer kind
, though , like Waller ' s writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most
delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised , I do not remember to
...
עמוד 261
The confroversy is now forgotten ; and books of this kind seldom live long , when
interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 , he mingled in the controversy
between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could ...
The confroversy is now forgotten ; and books of this kind seldom live long , when
interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 , he mingled in the controversy
between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could ...
עמוד 285
Not to name the school or the masters of men illustrious for literature , is a kind of
historical fraud , by which honest fame is injuriously diminished : I would
therefore grace him through the whole process of his education . In 1683 , in the ...
Not to name the school or the masters of men illustrious for literature , is a kind of
historical fraud , by which honest fame is injuriously diminished : I would
therefore grace him through the whole process of his education . In 1683 , in the ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Addison afterwards appears attention believe called character common considered continued conversation criticism death delight desire died discovered Dryden easily effect elegance English equal excellence expected expression favour formed friends gave genius give given hand honour hope imagination Italy kind King knowledge known Lady language learning least less letter lines lived Lord manner means mentioned Milton mind nature never night numbers observed obtained occasion once opinion original passed performance perhaps person play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise present probably produced published reader reason received remarks reputation Savage says seems sent shew sometimes soon success sufficient supposed tell thing thought tion told tragedy translation true verses virtue whole write written wrote Young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 562 - 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.
עמוד 44 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
עמוד 55 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
עמוד 673 - I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning, "Yet even these bones...
עמוד 204 - 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. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.
עמוד 12 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
עמוד 557 - His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication, was not strictly true. His parental attention never abandoned them ; what he found amiss in the first edition, he silently corrected in those that followed. He appears to have revised the 'Iliad...
עמוד 5 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace: Nor let him then enjoy supreme command ; But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand!
עמוד 636 - Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
עמוד 522 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but 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.
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, כרך 1 The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Great Britain |
| מאת | Great Britain |
| מפורסם | 1804 |
| מקור מאת | אוניברסיטת אוקספורד |
| דיגיטלי | 21 מאי 2007 |
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