New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - 195 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1820全文表示 - この書籍について
| John Sitter - 2001 - 322 ページ
...regrettable falling away. On the matter of versification, Pope's heroic couplets were supreme: 196 "New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous."52 To an acute observer of the literary scene... | |
| Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 ページ
...elegant in the English language which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer," Johnson asserts. New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best,... | |
| John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 ページ
...understood." Versification, too, is a progressive science, as Johnson notes of poetry after Dryden and Pope: "New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best,... | |
| Lynda Pratt - 2006 - 320 ページ
...made it difficult to conceive how poetry might develop beyond Pope's perfection of the heroic couplet: 'New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous'.20 Southey overturns this declaration by maintaining... | |
| 1901 - 670 ページ
...unwholesome analyses and scandalous improprieties, that corrupt the sons of Cervantes." — Senor Valdes. 8 " New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best,... | |
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