 The great defect of the Seasons is want of method ; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order,...  The works of Samuel Johnson - 238 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1823全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 836 ページ
...remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the cariosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. ** Hie diction is in the highest degree florid... | |
 | George Crabb - 1904 - 870 ページ
...heaven. RLMH. Thomson's diction is in the highest degree liorid and luxuriant, such &* may be said to 1« to his images and thoughts '• both their lustre and their shade," such as invests them with sjilf ndor through which they are not eaflily discernible. JOHNSON. There Is an appearance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 ページ
...of * Ante, POPE, 315. ances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of...curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation. 50 His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images... | |
 | Aristotle - 1910 - 550 ページ
...he calls the sentiments, includes the expression of passion. Twining. 15 " His diction [ Thomson's] is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant ; such...thoughts both their lustre and their shade ; such as invests them with splendour, through which perhaps they are not always easily discerned." — Dr. Johnson's... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - 1924 - 288 ページ
...which Dr. Johnson very justly remarked, " The great defect of The Seasons is want of method. . . . The memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation." 2a For the resulting melange no better name has yet been found than " a descriptive poem." Great changes... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 ページ
...that 'Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order,...curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation.' Moreover (to clinch the matter) we have direct evidence that Lessing disapproved of one aspect of Thomson's... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 ページ
...Later, in 1779, he voiced in the Life of Thomson h1s most direct criticism of his poetical practice: His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant,...thoughts "both their lustre and their shade"; such as invests them with splendour, through which perhaps they are not always easily discerned. It is too... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 ページ
...appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another; yet memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation."46 For Johnson, himself immersed in the sea of political ideas that Thomson's poem is... | |
 | G. Gabrielle Starr - 2004 - 318 ページ
...remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation."8 The natural world for Johnson seems to offer no structural principles that could receive... | |
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