The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, 第 6 巻1790 |
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... Ocean , " an Ode . Concluding with a With . " This with confifts of thirteen ftanzas . The firft runs thus : O may I fteal Along the vale Of humble life , fecure from foes ! My My friend fincere , My judgement clear , And gentle YOUN G. 29.
... Ocean , " an Ode . Concluding with a With . " This with confifts of thirteen ftanzas . The firft runs thus : O may I fteal Along the vale Of humble life , fecure from foes ! My My friend fincere , My judgement clear , And gentle YOUN G. 29.
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... firft which happened . " Night Thoughts " were not uncommon to her , even when firft fhe vi- fited the poet , and at a time when he himself was remarkable neither for gravity nor gloomi- nefs . In his " Laft Day , " almoft his earliest ...
... firft which happened . " Night Thoughts " were not uncommon to her , even when firft fhe vi- fited the poet , and at a time when he himself was remarkable neither for gravity nor gloomi- nefs . In his " Laft Day , " almoft his earliest ...
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... firft " Night , " the address to the Poet's fuppofed son is , Lorenzo , Fortune makes her court to thee . In the fifth " Night ” — And burns Lorenzo ftill for the fublime Of life ? to hang his airy neft on high ? Is this a picture of ...
... firft " Night , " the address to the Poet's fuppofed son is , Lorenzo , Fortune makes her court to thee . In the fifth " Night ” — And burns Lorenzo ftill for the fublime Of life ? to hang his airy neft on high ? Is this a picture of ...
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... firft vifit , a vifit of curiofity and admiration , and a vifit which the author expected . Of Edward Young an anecdote which wanders among readers is not true , that he was Fielding's Parfon Adams . The original of that famous paint ...
... firft vifit , a vifit of curiofity and admiration , and a vifit which the author expected . Of Edward Young an anecdote which wanders among readers is not true , that he was Fielding's Parfon Adams . The original of that famous paint ...
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... firft great performance , has an equability and propriety , which he af- terwards either never endeavoured or never at- tained . Many paragraphs are noble , and few are mean , yet the whole is languid ; the plan is too much extended ...
... firft great performance , has an equability and propriety , which he af- terwards either never endeavoured or never at- tained . Many paragraphs are noble , and few are mean , yet the whole is languid ; the plan is too much extended ...
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82 ページ - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity...
129 ページ - 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.
130 ページ - The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
130 ページ - Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
118 ページ - ... merely as a man of letters; and though without birth, or fortune, or station, his desire was to be looked upon as a private independent gentleman, who read for his amusement.
99 ページ - ... being such as he was not inclined to give precipitately, he carried the work to Pope, who, having looked into it, advised him not to make a niggardly offer ; for " this was no every-day writer.
162 ページ - mild and affable in private life, of gentle manners, and very engaging in conversation. He was an excellent scholar, and an easy natural poet. His peculiar excellence was the dressing up an old thought in a new, neat, and trim manner. He was contented to scamper round the foot of Parnassus on his little Welsh poney, which seems never to have tired.
141 ページ - On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountain of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed, as from a copious spring.
124 ページ - An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art: an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
132 ページ - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the 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.