The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, 第 4 巻 |
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the first and last letter , C- , a poem of two cantos was written ( 1711 ) , as is said ,
in a fortnight , and sent to the offended Lady , who liked it well enough to fhew it ;
and , with the usual process of literary transactions , the author , dreading a ...
the first and last letter , C- , a poem of two cantos was written ( 1711 ) , as is said ,
in a fortnight , and sent to the offended Lady , who liked it well enough to fhew it ;
and , with the usual process of literary transactions , the author , dreading a ...
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When first he rears his radiant orb to fight , And bath'd in ocean shoots a keener
light . Such glories Pallas on the chief bestow'd , Such from his arms the fierce
effulgence flow'd ; Onward she drives him furious to engage , Where the fight
burns ...
When first he rears his radiant orb to fight , And bath'd in ocean shoots a keener
light . Such glories Pallas on the chief bestow'd , Such from his arms the fierce
effulgence flow'd ; Onward she drives him furious to engage , Where the fight
burns ...
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Of these specimens every man who has cultivated poetry , or who delights to
trace the mind from the rudeness of its first conceptions to the elegance of its last ,
will naturally desire a greater number ; but most other readers are already tired ...
Of these specimens every man who has cultivated poetry , or who delights to
trace the mind from the rudeness of its first conceptions to the elegance of its last ,
will naturally desire a greater number ; but most other readers are already tired ...
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Of the Ode on Adversity , the hint was at first taken from o Diva , gratum quæ regis
Antium ; but Gray has excelled his original by the variety of his sentiments , and
by their moral application . Of this piece , at once poetical and rational , I will not ...
Of the Ode on Adversity , the hint was at first taken from o Diva , gratum quæ regis
Antium ; but Gray has excelled his original by the variety of his sentiments , and
by their moral application . Of this piece , at once poetical and rational , I will not ...
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His position is at last false : in the time of Dante and Petrarch , from whom he
derives our first school of Poetry , Italy was over - run by tyrant power and coward
vice ; nor was our state much better when we first borrowed the Italian arts .
His position is at last false : in the time of Dante and Petrarch , from whom he
derives our first school of Poetry , Italy was over - run by tyrant power and coward
vice ; nor was our state much better when we first borrowed the Italian arts .
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17 ページ - Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with mankind, and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards ; and being praised by Addison in the Spectator* with sufficient liberality,...
286 ページ - Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time -combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
485 ページ - 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.
172 ページ - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
55 ページ - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
233 ページ - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
490 ページ - Letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.
274 ページ - They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their " race ;" a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil. " Liberty," when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon desisted.
173 ページ - 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 below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
171 ページ - Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who, before he became an author, had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science.
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| 書籍名 | The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, 第 4 巻 The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, Samuel Johnson |
| 著者 | Samuel Johnson |
| 発行 | 1781 |
| 書籍の提供元 | オックスフォード大学 |
| デジタル化された日 | 2007年6月19日 |
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