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מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 15
עמוד 21
... , have little in them of either art or nature , of the fentiments of a lover , or the language of a poet : there may be found , now - and - then , a happier B 3 happier effort ; but they are commonly feeble and unaffecting GRANVILLE . 21.
... , have little in them of either art or nature , of the fentiments of a lover , or the language of a poet : there may be found , now - and - then , a happier B 3 happier effort ; but they are commonly feeble and unaffecting GRANVILLE . 21.
עמוד 30
... language , and incapable of judging of . the fentiments , condemns by the eye , and con- cludes what he hears to be as extravagant as what he fees . When Oedipus breaks his neck out of a balcony , and Jocafta appears in her bed ...
... language , and incapable of judging of . the fentiments , condemns by the eye , and con- cludes what he hears to be as extravagant as what he fees . When Oedipus breaks his neck out of a balcony , and Jocafta appears in her bed ...
עמוד 34
... accompany mufic . The folemn language of a haughty tyrant will by no means become a pas- fionate lover , and tender fentiments require the fofteft colouring . The The theme must govern the style ; every thought , 34 GRANVILLE .
... accompany mufic . The folemn language of a haughty tyrant will by no means become a pas- fionate lover , and tender fentiments require the fofteft colouring . The The theme must govern the style ; every thought , 34 GRANVILLE .
עמוד 2
... fuffered none of his fcholars to let their powers lie ufelefs , and his exercises in feveral languages are faid to have been written with uncommon degrees of ex- cellence , cellence , and yet to have coft him very little 2 ROW E.
... fuffered none of his fcholars to let their powers lie ufelefs , and his exercises in feveral languages are faid to have been written with uncommon degrees of ex- cellence , cellence , and yet to have coft him very little 2 ROW E.
עמוד 6
... language . The ftory is domeftick , and therefore eafily received by the imagination , and affimilated to common life ; the diction is exquifitely harmonious , and foft or fpritely as occafion requires . The character of Lothario feems ...
... language . The ftory is domeftick , and therefore eafily received by the imagination , and affimilated to common life ; the diction is exquifitely harmonious , and foft or fpritely as occafion requires . The character of Lothario feems ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Profaces, Briogrpahical and Critical <span dir=ltr>Samuel Johnson</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 24 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
עמוד 27 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness 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.
עמוד 16 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
עמוד 26 - Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted isle: We'll listen— LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd, and still as death. — Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity!
עמוד 27 - He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished with -beauty and enlarged with majesty.
עמוד 4 - ... excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain.
עמוד 53 - All I can say for those passages, which are, I hope, not many, is, that I knew they were bad enough to please, even when I writ them...
עמוד 13 - ... and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause. Thus qualified, and thus incited, he walked out to battle, and assailed at once most of the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey.
עמוד 23 - ... accumulation of attentive parsimony, which, though to her superfluous and useless, might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended, at that time by the imprudence of his relation reduced to difficulties and distress.
עמוד 14 - His onset was violent; those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror. The wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge.