The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 עמודים |
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עמוד 18
... considered myself as en- trusted with a certain portion of truth . I have given my opinion sincerely : let them show where they think me wrong . " He had hardly begun to reap the laurels gained by this performance when death deprived ...
... considered myself as en- trusted with a certain portion of truth . I have given my opinion sincerely : let them show where they think me wrong . " He had hardly begun to reap the laurels gained by this performance when death deprived ...
עמוד 27
... considered as of unri- valled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the greatest English poets were " Spenser , Shakespeare and Cowley ...
... considered as of unri- valled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the greatest English poets were " Spenser , Shakespeare and Cowley ...
עמוד 28
... considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the in- fluence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action ...
... considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the in- fluence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action ...
עמוד 30
... with the common heroic of ten syllabes , and from him Dryden bor- rowed the practice whether ornamental or licen- cious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into 30 COWLEY .
... with the common heroic of ten syllabes , and from him Dryden bor- rowed the practice whether ornamental or licen- cious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into 30 COWLEY .
עמוד 34
... considered as the kinsman of Hampden . The King's demand of a supply in- duced Waller to deliver a most vehement speech , the great position of which was that grievances ought to be redressed before supplies are granted . In the long ...
... considered as the kinsman of Hampden . The King's demand of a supply in- duced Waller to deliver a most vehement speech , the great position of which was that grievances ought to be redressed before supplies are granted . In the long ...
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acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appeared became Ben Jonson blank verse born called character church College comedy compositions court Cowley criticism daughter death delight diction died dramatic Dryden Dunciad Earl elegance eminent English English poetry Essay esteem excellence father favour friends friendship gave genius guineas honour Hudibras hundred pounds Iliad images Ireland JOHN MILTON Johnson kind King Kit-cat Club labour language Latin learning lived London Lord manner master Milton mind mother nature never numbers occasion Oxford Oxfordshire Paradise Lost performance perhaps pieces play poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise Prior produced published Queen received reputation retired returned rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments Shakespeare shew sometimes soon Spenser stage supposed Swift thought tion told tragedy translated verse versification Waller Westminster Abbey Whigs William Davenant William Shakespeare Winchester College write written wrote
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עמוד 291 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
עמוד 114 - 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.
עמוד 63 - But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them.
עמוד 252 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
עמוד 78 - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
עמוד 309 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
עמוד 78 - 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.
עמוד 79 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
עמוד 112 - Cato' it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion :" here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
עמוד 132 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness 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.