The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 pàgines |
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... lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has , indeed , many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and inevitable ...
... lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has , indeed , many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and inevitable ...
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... lost all hopes of Sacharissa , he looked round him for an easier conquest , and gained a lady of the family of Bresse , or Breaux , by whom he had five sons and eight daughters . At the time the parliament was called , in 1640 , it ...
... lost all hopes of Sacharissa , he looked round him for an easier conquest , and gained a lady of the family of Bresse , or Breaux , by whom he had five sons and eight daughters . At the time the parliament was called , in 1640 , it ...
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... lost at eighty - two any part of his poetical powers . After lamenting that verse , when applied to the purposes of worship , has not been hitherto attended with success , he again more particularly recurs to the poet who is the present ...
... lost at eighty - two any part of his poetical powers . After lamenting that verse , when applied to the purposes of worship , has not been hitherto attended with success , he again more particularly recurs to the poet who is the present ...
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... Conquest . For the subject of his epic poem , after much deliberation , long chusing and beginning late , he fixed upon " Paradise Lost . " It seems , by some sketches of poetical projects left in manuscript , and to 50 MILTON .
... Conquest . For the subject of his epic poem , after much deliberation , long chusing and beginning late , he fixed upon " Paradise Lost . " It seems , by some sketches of poetical projects left in manuscript , and to 50 MILTON .
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... Lost . " While his greater designs were advancing , he amused himself as well as he could with little productions . He sent to the press ( 1658 ) a ma- nuscript of Raleigh called " the Cabinet Council ; " and next year gratified his ...
... Lost . " While his greater designs were advancing , he amused himself as well as he could with little productions . He sent to the press ( 1658 ) a ma- nuscript of Raleigh called " the Cabinet Council ; " and next year gratified his ...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ... Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1805 |
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Pàgina 291 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Pàgina 114 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pàgina 63 - But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them.
Pàgina 252 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Pàgina 78 - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
Pàgina 309 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Pàgina 78 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.
Pàgina 79 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Pàgina 112 - Cato' it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion :" here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
Pàgina 132 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.