Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volum 11854 |
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Pàgina 14
... composition , " says Mr. Wright , " is one in which , though devoid of the artificial ornaments of more refined poetry , the story marches on with a kind of lofty grandeur , which was well calculated to move the hearts of the hearers ...
... composition , " says Mr. Wright , " is one in which , though devoid of the artificial ornaments of more refined poetry , the story marches on with a kind of lofty grandeur , which was well calculated to move the hearts of the hearers ...
Pàgina 17
... composition to him ; so that we must , not without surprise , attribute the earliest place in the catalogue of the royal poets of England to his fierce grandson , Coeur de Lion , who , towards the end of his father's reign , lived much ...
... composition to him ; so that we must , not without surprise , attribute the earliest place in the catalogue of the royal poets of England to his fierce grandson , Coeur de Lion , who , towards the end of his father's reign , lived much ...
Pàgina 26
... composition in Anglo - Norman , extending to more than 10,000 lines , and exhibiting ancient fable in a very strange me- . Biographica Britannica Literaria ii . 309 . diæval garb . Upon the completion of this romance , 26 . LIVES OF THE ...
... composition in Anglo - Norman , extending to more than 10,000 lines , and exhibiting ancient fable in a very strange me- . Biographica Britannica Literaria ii . 309 . diæval garb . Upon the completion of this romance , 26 . LIVES OF THE ...
Pàgina 32
... compositions of John of Salisbury , Joseph of Exeter , and others , bore testimony to the no less powerful encouragement of the Church , the Saxon language , however degraded , still continued to maintain its ground , as generally ...
... compositions of John of Salisbury , Joseph of Exeter , and others , bore testimony to the no less powerful encouragement of the Church , the Saxon language , however degraded , still continued to maintain its ground , as generally ...
Pàgina 33
... composition , which is broken into a series of short unconnected sentences , and in which the con- struction is as plain and artless as possible , and perfectly free from inversions , seems to indicate that little more than the ...
... composition , which is broken into a series of short unconnected sentences , and in which the con- struction is as plain and artless as possible , and perfectly free from inversions , seems to indicate that little more than the ...
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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.