Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was the first attempt to form a complete body of British poetry , and in its design the publication set on foot by an unassisted individual in Edinburgh is preferable ...
... Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was the first attempt to form a complete body of British poetry , and in its design the publication set on foot by an unassisted individual in Edinburgh is preferable ...
Pàgina vi
... Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , Johnson tells us , seemed not very ex- tensive , or , as he had first written it , not very tedious or diffi- cult . " My purpose , " he says , " was only to have allotted to ...
... Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , Johnson tells us , seemed not very ex- tensive , or , as he had first written it , not very tedious or diffi- cult . " My purpose , " he says , " was only to have allotted to ...
Pàgina vii
... Poetry , excluding generally the dramas ; and I have undertaken to put before each author's works a sketch of his life , and a character of his writings . Of some , however , I know but very little , and I am afraid I shall not easily ...
... Poetry , excluding generally the dramas ; and I have undertaken to put before each author's works a sketch of his life , and a character of his writings . Of some , however , I know but very little , and I am afraid I shall not easily ...
Pàgina ix
... poetry , nor for the poets themselves . He knew his own prejudices , hurried through his work , and brought it to a close . " Some time in March " ( he observes in his annual review made Easter , 1781 ) " I finished the Lives of the ...
... poetry , nor for the poets themselves . He knew his own prejudices , hurried through his work , and brought it to a close . " Some time in March " ( he observes in his annual review made Easter , 1781 ) " I finished the Lives of the ...
Pàgina xvi
... poets they attacked and the proper importance which Johnson gave to their writings from his knowledge of the influ- ence such satire and criticism exercised on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing ...
... poets they attacked and the proper importance which Johnson gave to their writings from his knowledge of the influ- ence such satire and criticism exercised on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing ...
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Pàgina 341 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Pàgina 364 - 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 141 - 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 ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Pàgina 21 - To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables n.
Pàgina 162 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Pàgina 74 - 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 380 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Pàgina 364 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, '• This universal frame began : ' When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, ••;.-'• The timeful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead.
Pàgina 76 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, " He did not steal, but emulate ! " And, when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not their cloaths, did wear.
Pàgina xiv - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.