The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, כרך 1 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 14
עמוד 65
The King , with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other exam . ple ,
declined to be the judge or avenger of his own or his father ' s wrongs : and
promised to admit into the Act of Oblivion all , except those whom the parliament
should ...
The King , with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other exam . ple ,
declined to be the judge or avenger of his own or his father ' s wrongs : and
promised to admit into the Act of Oblivion all , except those whom the parliament
should ...
עמוד 211
Great Britain. So by your counsels we are brought to view A new and undiscover '
d world in you . There is another comparison , for there is little else in the poem ,
of which , though perhaps it cannot be explained into plain prosaick meaning ...
Great Britain. So by your counsels we are brought to view A new and undiscover '
d world in you . There is another comparison , for there is little else in the poem ,
of which , though perhaps it cannot be explained into plain prosaick meaning ...
עמוד 223
It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist
, even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some paassges
excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius ...
It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist
, even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some paassges
excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius ...
עמוד 234
Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such
variety of models . To him we owe the the improvement , perhaps the completion
of our metre , the refinement of our language , and much of the correctness of our
...
Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such
variety of models . To him we owe the the improvement , perhaps the completion
of our metre , the refinement of our language , and much of the correctness of our
...
עמוד 304
Addison ' s conversa" tion # , " says Pope , “ had something in it more charming
than I have “ found in any other man . But this was only when familiar : before
stran“ gers , or perhaps a single stranger , he preserved his dignity by å stiff
silence .
Addison ' s conversa" tion # , " says Pope , “ had something in it more charming
than I have “ found in any other man . But this was only when familiar : before
stran“ gers , or perhaps a single stranger , he preserved his dignity by å stiff
silence .
מה אומרים אנשים - כתיבת ביקורת
לא מצאנו ביקורות במקומות הרגילים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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.