 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 ページ
...what on any occasion they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure." " Johnson dislikes what we would call their ironic detachment, their lack of uniform sentiment, their... | |
 | Charles Martindale - 1990 - 340 ページ
...Johnson levelled against the 'metaphysical' poets: they... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil,...vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.38 Ovid and Dryden, it can be objected, are using their mythological narrative to affect a... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 ページ
...what on any occasion they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil,...vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion" (LP 1:20). So, too, readers and critics make a similar mistake when they defraud past authors, or any... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 ページ
...metaphoric idea that the metaphysicals "wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; ... as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life" (para. 57), linking this poetry with Soame Jenyns's remote rationality (attacked by Johnson in his... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 ページ
...and things of the heart. Samuel Johnson said of Donne and other members of the Metaphysical School, "Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before." More recently, TS Eliot has praised the Metaphysicals for keeping all the parts of life together and... | |
 | Daniel Tiffany - 2000 - 372 ページ
...(343). And, more generally, Johnson compares the Metaphysical poets in their scientific demeanor to "Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of...vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion" (348). It is only in reference to statements such as this that one can grasp the true import of Johnson's... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 ページ
...experiential problem he sees in the metaphysicals, who "wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil,...void of fondness and their lamentation of sorrow" (para. 57). The force of this criticism clearly has much to do with the metaphysicals being like "Epicurean... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 ページ
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...wish was only to say what they hoped had never been slid before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 ページ
...what on any occasion they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure.« 82. ebenda, 2 (Congreve), 217; Raleigh, S. 9: »These apologies are always useless, de gustibus non... | |
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... they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than... 
