LivesSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
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... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's estcem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the B 2 • In the first edition of this Life , Dr ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's estcem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the B 2 • In the first edition of this Life , Dr ...
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... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all " the rest ) Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . ' " " This expression from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all " the rest ) Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . ' " " This expression from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
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... tell , cannot however now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell , cannot however now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
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... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
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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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565 ページ - 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.
559 ページ - 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.
11 ページ - 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.
82 ページ - 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.
218 ページ - 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.
559 ページ - ... 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.
205 ページ - 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.
524 ページ - 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.
36 ページ - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
560 ページ - ... 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...