The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 עמודים |
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עמוד 10
... sent to the press at the end of the year 1754. When we consider the nature of the under- taking , it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so soon , since it was written , as he says , " with little assistance of the learned , and ...
... sent to the press at the end of the year 1754. When we consider the nature of the under- taking , it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so soon , since it was written , as he says , " with little assistance of the learned , and ...
עמוד 14
... sent it to the press in portions as it was written , and had never since read it over . Hitherto , notwithstanding his various publica- tions , he was poor , and obliged to provide by his labour for the wants of the day ; but having ...
... sent it to the press in portions as it was written , and had never since read it over . Hitherto , notwithstanding his various publica- tions , he was poor , and obliged to provide by his labour for the wants of the day ; but having ...
עמוד 25
... sent out in quest of another man ; and being examined he was put into confinement , from which he was not dismissed without the se- curity of a thousand pounds , which was given by Dr. Scarborow . This year he published his poems , and ...
... sent out in quest of another man ; and being examined he was put into confinement , from which he was not dismissed without the se- curity of a thousand pounds , which was given by Dr. Scarborow . This year he published his poems , and ...
עמוד 32
... sent to parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and often frequented the court of James the First . His poli- tical and poetical life began nearly together . In his eighteenth year he wrote the poem that appears ...
... sent to parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and often frequented the court of James the First . His poli- tical and poetical life began nearly together . In his eighteenth year he wrote the poem that appears ...
עמוד 35
... sent him a thousand broad pieces . He continued , however , to sit in the re- bellious conventicle , but spoke with great freedom against the sense and spirit of the house . The engagement known by the name of Waller's plot was now ...
... sent him a thousand broad pieces . He continued , however , to sit in the re- bellious conventicle , but spoke with great freedom against the sense and spirit of the house . The engagement known by the name of Waller's plot was now ...
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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.