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עמוד 39
... truth , we owe the pleafure and advantage of having been fo well entertained and instructed by him , to his facility of doing it if it had been a trouble to him to write , I am much mistaken if he would not have spared himself that ...
... truth , we owe the pleafure and advantage of having been fo well entertained and instructed by him , to his facility of doing it if it had been a trouble to him to write , I am much mistaken if he would not have spared himself that ...
עמוד 46
... truth , it looks the very fame ; Not rais'd to force , or feign'd in Nature's fcorn , But meant to grace , illuftrate , and adorn . Important truths ftill let your fables hold , And moral myfteries with art unfold . Ladies and beaux to ...
... truth , it looks the very fame ; Not rais'd to force , or feign'd in Nature's fcorn , But meant to grace , illuftrate , and adorn . Important truths ftill let your fables hold , And moral myfteries with art unfold . Ladies and beaux to ...
עמוד 47
... Truth , where the meaning's obvious , will dispense ; The reader what in reafon ' s due believes ; Nor can we call ... truths , and have an intelligible fignification , though the expreffion be ftrained beyond 4 Above the clouds , but ...
... Truth , where the meaning's obvious , will dispense ; The reader what in reafon ' s due believes ; Nor can we call ... truths , and have an intelligible fignification , though the expreffion be ftrained beyond 4 Above the clouds , but ...
עמוד 48
... truth , and make a tow'ring flight ; Prefenting things impoffible to view , They wander thro ' incredible to true : Falfehoods , thus mix'd , like metals are refin'd , And truth , like filver , leaves the drofs behind . Thus poetry has ...
... truth , and make a tow'ring flight ; Prefenting things impoffible to view , They wander thro ' incredible to true : Falfehoods , thus mix'd , like metals are refin'd , And truth , like filver , leaves the drofs behind . Thus poetry has ...
עמוד 49
... action fought anew , And the dead conquer'd , whilft the living few . This is agreeable to truth , and within the compass of nature : it is thus only that the dead can ac . D And And spent at laft , and fpeechlefs as he lies GRANVILLE 49.
... action fought anew , And the dead conquer'd , whilft the living few . This is agreeable to truth , and within the compass of nature : it is thus only that the dead can ac . D And And spent at laft , and fpeechlefs as he lies GRANVILLE 49.
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.