The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E. Newbery, T. Evans, P. Elmsly, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, W. Nicoll, J. Murray, S. Hayes, W. Fox, and J. Bowen., 1783 |
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Pàgina 74
... deferve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehenfion of know- ledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of ...
... deferve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehenfion of know- ledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of ...
Pàgina 178
... deferve a difquifition ; large offers and fturdy rejections are among the most common topicks of falsehood . • He had fo much either of prudence or gra titude , that he forbore to difturb the new fettlement with any of his political or ...
... deferve a difquifition ; large offers and fturdy rejections are among the most common topicks of falsehood . • He had fo much either of prudence or gra titude , that he forbore to difturb the new fettlement with any of his political or ...
Pàgina 245
... deferve cenfure ; for what Englishman can take de- light in transcribing paffages , which , if they leffen the reputation of Milton , diminish in fome degree the honour of our country ? The generality of my scheme does not ad- mit the ...
... deferve cenfure ; for what Englishman can take de- light in transcribing paffages , which , if they leffen the reputation of Milton , diminish in fome degree the honour of our country ? The generality of my scheme does not ad- mit the ...
Pàgina 255
... de- ferve the attention of a critick . Such are the faults of that wonderful per- formance Paradife Loft ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be con- fidered not as nice but as dull , as lefs to be cenfured for want ...
... de- ferve the attention of a critick . Such are the faults of that wonderful per- formance Paradife Loft ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be con- fidered not as nice but as dull , as lefs to be cenfured for want ...
Pàgina 315
... deferve a tranflation ; that he who intends to tranflate him should endea- your to understand him ; that perfpicuity fhould be ftudied , and unufual and uncouth pames fparingly inferted ; and that the style of the original fhould be ...
... deferve a tranflation ; that he who intends to tranflate him should endea- your to understand him ; that perfpicuity fhould be ftudied , and unufual and uncouth pames fparingly inferted ; and that the style of the original fhould be ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 109 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Pàgina 52 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Pàgina 246 - Lost' has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Pàgina 29 - Their attempts were always analytick: they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of...
Pàgina 251 - The confusion of spirit and matter, which pervades the whole narration of the war of Heaven, fills it with incongruity; and the book in which it is related is, I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased.
Pàgina 82 - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Pàgina 249 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Pàgina 28 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration.
Pàgina 28 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, 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...
Pàgina 256 - Regained has been too much depreciated, Samson Agonistes has in requital been too much admired. It could only be by long prejudice, and the bigotry of learning, that Milton could prefer the ancient tragedies, with their encumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages...