Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and IllustrationsE. Newbery, 1797 - 239 עמודים |
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עמוד xvii
... reason : if the antiquity of these poems be yet doubted , it is owing more to the con- duct of their editor than to the violence of Johnfon . In 1774 , the parliament being diffolved , he addreffed to the electors of Great Britain a ...
... reason : if the antiquity of these poems be yet doubted , it is owing more to the con- duct of their editor than to the violence of Johnfon . In 1774 , the parliament being diffolved , he addreffed to the electors of Great Britain a ...
עמוד 21
... reason we know not , that he incurred ruftication , a temporary difmiffion into the country , with , perhaps , the lofs of a term . Weary , as he declares , of enduring the threats of a ri- gorous mafter , and fomething elfe , which a ...
... reason we know not , that he incurred ruftication , a temporary difmiffion into the country , with , perhaps , the lofs of a term . Weary , as he declares , of enduring the threats of a ri- gorous mafter , and fomething elfe , which a ...
עמוד 26
... of the poem as it went on , asked the reason , as the fummer came on , of his not being fhewn any for a confiderable time .--- Milton declared f " that " that his vein never happily flowed but from the 26 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS .
... of the poem as it went on , asked the reason , as the fummer came on , of his not being fhewn any for a confiderable time .--- Milton declared f " that " that his vein never happily flowed but from the 26 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS .
עמוד 43
... reason to be ashamed . Although author of fuch a number of theatrical pieces , this lowness of fortune of which he complains , is not fo furprising , upon confideration , as it may first appear . The profits of the theatre at that time ...
... reason to be ashamed . Although author of fuch a number of theatrical pieces , this lowness of fortune of which he complains , is not fo furprising , upon confideration , as it may first appear . The profits of the theatre at that time ...
עמוד 50
... reason than quick fenfibi- lity . Upon all occafions that were presented , he studied rather than felt , and produced fentiments not fuch as nature enforces , but meditation fupplies . With the fim- ple and elemental paffions , as they ...
... reason than quick fenfibi- lity . Upon all occafions that were presented , he studied rather than felt , and produced fentiments not fuch as nature enforces , but meditation fupplies . With the fim- ple and elemental paffions , as they ...
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Addifon Æneid affiftance afterwards againſt anfwer appeared becauſe beſt cenfure comedy compofition confiderable confidered converfation Cowley death defign defired delight diction died Dryden Duke Dunciad eafily Earl Effay elegant Engliſh faid fame father fatire fays fchool fecond feems feldom fent fentiments feven feveral fhew fhort fhould firft firſt fome fometimes foon friends ftill ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fupplied fuppofed fupport greateſt higheſt himſelf honour houfe houſe Hudibras Iliad Johnſon kindneſs King laft laſt leaſt lefs loft Lord mafter mind moft moſt muſt never numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffion Paradife perfon pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praife praiſe prefent produced profe publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen raiſed reafon refolved rhyme Savage ſeems Sir Robert Walpole ſtage ſtudy Swift Tatler thefe theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tragedy tranflated underſtanding univerfal uſed verfe verfification verſes vifit Waller Weſtminſter Whigs whofe write written wrote
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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.