Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volum 11854 |
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Pàgina 4
... ancient heroic poem , called Cath - Fin- Fragha ( the battle of Fintry ) , Fin is often represented as calling on Fergus to animate the drooping spirits of his officers , which the bard never fails to do effectually . In this battle ...
... ancient heroic poem , called Cath - Fin- Fragha ( the battle of Fintry ) , Fin is often represented as calling on Fergus to animate the drooping spirits of his officers , which the bard never fails to do effectually . In this battle ...
Pàgina 8
... ancient history and fable , and that he had read attentively a cer- tain class of authors . The style is simple , and not incorrect ; but there is little spirit or vigour in his versification . He frequently imitates the later poets ...
... ancient history and fable , and that he had read attentively a cer- tain class of authors . The style is simple , and not incorrect ; but there is little spirit or vigour in his versification . He frequently imitates the later poets ...
Pàgina 11
... ancient town in the forest which then covered the north - eastern districts of Wiltshire . Upon the death of Meildulf , Aldhelm , by the help of Eleutherius , Bishop of Winchester , built ( circa 683 ) a monastery where the cell had ...
... ancient town in the forest which then covered the north - eastern districts of Wiltshire . Upon the death of Meildulf , Aldhelm , by the help of Eleutherius , Bishop of Winchester , built ( circa 683 ) a monastery where the cell had ...
Pàgina 23
... ancient Rome ; a poetical dissertation , in 800 lines , on the three words , smoke , rain , and woman , which , according to Solomon , drive a man from his house ; a fabulous history of the preaching and miracles of the Magdalen at ...
... ancient Rome ; a poetical dissertation , in 800 lines , on the three words , smoke , rain , and woman , which , according to Solomon , drive a man from his house ; a fabulous history of the preaching and miracles of the Magdalen at ...
Pàgina 24
... ancient than the time of the Emperor Valentinian III . , who died 455 ; less so than Lucan's Pharsalia , since the author , in his second book , com- mends Lucan . The name of Cato probably became prefixed to these distichs , in a lower ...
... ancient than the time of the Emperor Valentinian III . , who died 455 ; less so than Lucan's Pharsalia , since the author , in his second book , com- mends Lucan . The name of Cato probably became prefixed to these distichs , in a lower ...
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Pàgina 212 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Pàgina 192 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.
Pàgina 185 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Pàgina 187 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.
Pàgina 311 - Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till he might recover his understanding.
Pàgina 194 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Pàgina 186 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Pàgina 60 - For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers...
Pàgina 288 - His chiefest recreation was Musick, in which heavenly Art he was a most excellent Master, and did himself compose many divine Hymns and Anthems, which he set and sung to his Lute or Viol...
Pàgina 322 - Orpheus' lyre : If she sit down, with tops all tow'rds her bow'd, They round about her into arbours crowd : Or if she walks, in even ranks they stand, Like some well-marshal'd and obsequious band.