The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Alexander V. Blake, 1840 |
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עמוד 19
... poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the com- mon heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dry - verse and his prose at a greater distance from den borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the ...
... poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the com- mon heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dry - verse and his prose at a greater distance from den borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the ...
עמוד 22
... poet , and from whom is derived the only authentic account of his domestic man- ners . John , the poet , was born in his father's house , at the Spread Eagle , in Bread - street , Dec. 9 , 1608 , between six and seven in the morning ...
... poet , and from whom is derived the only authentic account of his domestic man- ners . John , the poet , was born in his father's house , at the Spread Eagle , in Bread - street , Dec. 9 , 1608 , between six and seven in the morning ...
עמוד 41
... poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language , distin- guished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation ...
... poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language , distin- guished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation ...
עמוד 43
... poet has been very sparing of moral in- struction . In Milton every line breathes sanctity of thought and purity of manners , except when the train of the narration requires the introduction of the rebellious spirits ; and even they are ...
... poet has been very sparing of moral in- struction . In Milton every line breathes sanctity of thought and purity of manners , except when the train of the narration requires the introduction of the rebellious spirits ; and even they are ...
עמוד 56
... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player has have been differently employed : the one been considering thought , and the other action ; one has watched the heart , and the other con ...
... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player has have been differently employed : the one been considering thought , and the other action ; one has watched the heart , and the other con ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 275 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
עמוד 279 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
עמוד 96 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
עמוד 148 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
עמוד 8 - ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before.
עמוד 21 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection, or incidental meditation.
עמוד 46 - He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hinderance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
עמוד 211 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 252 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...
עמוד 111 - Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind.