Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and IllustrationsE. Newbery, 1797 - 239 עמודים |
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עמוד ix
... publications , which at this time at- tracted the greatest notice , were , " London , a Poem in imitation of Juvenal's third Satire ; " " Marmor Nor- folcienfe , or an Effay on an ancient prophetical In- fcription in Monkish Rhyme ...
... publications , which at this time at- tracted the greatest notice , were , " London , a Poem in imitation of Juvenal's third Satire ; " " Marmor Nor- folcienfe , or an Effay on an ancient prophetical In- fcription in Monkish Rhyme ...
עמוד xi
... publication of its plan or profpectus , addreffed to the Earl of Chesterfield . From that nobleman Johnfon was certainly led to expect patronage and encouragement ; and it feems to be equally certain that his lordship expected , when ...
... publication of its plan or profpectus , addreffed to the Earl of Chesterfield . From that nobleman Johnfon was certainly led to expect patronage and encouragement ; and it feems to be equally certain that his lordship expected , when ...
עמוד xiv
... ; that he wrote it in the evenings of one week , fent it to the prefs in portions as it was written , and had never fince read it over . Hitherto , Hitherto , notwithstanding his various publications , he was poor xiv SOME ACCOUNT OF THE.
... ; that he wrote it in the evenings of one week , fent it to the prefs in portions as it was written , and had never fince read it over . Hitherto , Hitherto , notwithstanding his various publications , he was poor xiv SOME ACCOUNT OF THE.
עמוד xv
Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations Samuel Johnson. Hitherto , notwithstanding his various publications , he was poor , and obliged to provide by his labour for the wants of the day that was paffing over him ; but having been early in ...
Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations Samuel Johnson. Hitherto , notwithstanding his various publications , he was poor , and obliged to provide by his labour for the wants of the day that was paffing over him ; but having been early in ...
עמוד xvi
... publication , it unquestionably con- tains much wit and much argument , expreffed in the author's best style of compofition ; and yet it is known to have been written between eight o'clock on Wed- nefday night and twelve o'clock on the ...
... publication , it unquestionably con- tains much wit and much argument , expreffed in the author's best style of compofition ; and yet it is known to have been written between eight o'clock on Wed- nefday night and twelve o'clock on the ...
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עמוד 146 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
עמוד 49 - Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious.
עמוד 31 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
עמוד 239 - 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 151 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
עמוד 49 - 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 33 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
עמוד 238 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
עמוד 148 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...
עמוד xii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.