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Pàgina 74
... by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and
themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great
success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please
better .
... by a mistaken ambition of exactness , degraded at once their originals and
themselves . Denham saw the better way , but has not pursued it with great
success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please
better .
Pàgina 75
pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully
on “ Old Age , ” has neither the clearness of prose , nor the sprightliness of poetry
The “ strength , of Denham , ” which Pope so emphatically mentions , is to be ...
pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully
on “ Old Age , ” has neither the clearness of prose , nor the sprightliness of poetry
The “ strength , of Denham , ” which Pope so emphatically mentions , is to be ...
Pàgina 333
where he professed it , went beyond his professions . He was of a very easy , of a
very pleasing access ; but somewhat slow , and , as it were , diffident in his
advances to others : he had that in nature which abhorred intrusion into any
society ...
where he professed it , went beyond his professions . He was of a very easy , of a
very pleasing access ; but somewhat slow , and , as it were , diffident in his
advances to others : he had that in nature which abhorred intrusion into any
society ...
Pàgina 335
He was indeed reproached with boasting of his familiarity with the great ; and
Horace will support him in the opinion , that to please superiors is not the lowest
kind of merit . The merit of pleasing must , however be estimated by the means .
He was indeed reproached with boasting of his familiarity with the great ; and
Horace will support him in the opinion , that to please superiors is not the lowest
kind of merit . The merit of pleasing must , however be estimated by the means .
Pàgina 352
After about half a century of forced thoughts , and rugged metre , some advances
towards nature and har . mony had been already made by Waller and Denham ;
they had shewn that long discourses in rhyme grew more pleasing when they ...
After about half a century of forced thoughts , and rugged metre , some advances
towards nature and har . mony had been already made by Waller and Denham ;
they had shewn that long discourses in rhyme grew more pleasing when they ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 369 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Pàgina 72 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pàgina 90 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pàgina 59 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Pàgina 138 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy;...
Pàgina 84 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pàgina 36 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Pàgina 139 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not...
Pàgina 24 - Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Pàgina 91 - ... but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation...
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volum 9 The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1811 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalitzat el | 9 Nov. 2006 |
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