LivesSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 2
... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
עמוד 5
... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discourag'd , and himself expell'd : Let him for succour sue from place to place , Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace . First let him see his friends in battle slain , And their untimely ...
... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discourag'd , and himself expell'd : Let him for succour sue from place to place , Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace . First let him see his friends in battle slain , And their untimely ...
עמוד 7
... numbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English ...
... numbers . At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English ...
עמוד 12
... numbers . Milton tried the metaphysick style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- cessors , having as much sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither im- proved versification , nor ...
... numbers . Milton tried the metaphysick style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- cessors , having as much sentiment and more musick . Suckling neither im- proved versification , nor ...
עמוד 15
... number and fixt rules were brought . Water and air he for the Tenor chose , Earth made the Base ; the Treble , flame arose . i COWLEY . The tears of lovers are always of great poetical account ; but Donne has extended them into worlds ...
... number and fixt rules were brought . Water and air he for the Tenor chose , Earth made the Base ; the Treble , flame arose . i COWLEY . The tears of lovers are always of great poetical account ; but Donne has extended them into worlds ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction Dorset Dryden duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry excellence faults favour friends genius honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present produced published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments shew shewn sometimes soon supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses Virgil virtue Waller Whigs write written wrote Young
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עמוד 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
עמוד 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
עמוד 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
עמוד 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
עמוד 218 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
עמוד 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
עמוד 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
עמוד 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
עמוד 36 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
עמוד 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...