The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina ix
... never excelled . The attempt in this place to condense that masterpiece were vain . It must suffice to note that Johnson undertook The Lives of the Poets- the only work of capital importance which the last twenty years of his life ...
... never excelled . The attempt in this place to condense that masterpiece were vain . It must suffice to note that Johnson undertook The Lives of the Poets- the only work of capital importance which the last twenty years of his life ...
Pàgina xv
... never strike with the sense of pleasure . ' The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been ...
... never strike with the sense of pleasure . ' The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been ...
Pàgina xvi
... never saw before what Thomson shews him , and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses . ' Gray's Elegy abounds ' with images which find a mirror in every mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' The ...
... never saw before what Thomson shews him , and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses . ' Gray's Elegy abounds ' with images which find a mirror in every mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' The ...
Pàgina xix
... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes invited and sometimes ...
... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes invited and sometimes ...
Pàgina xxiii
... never be communicated to his money ' ; and this on the same : ' When he was afterwards ridiculed in the character of a distressed poet , he very easily discovered that distress was not a proper subject for merriment , or topic of ...
... never be communicated to his money ' ; and this on the same : ' When he was afterwards ridiculed in the character of a distressed poet , he very easily discovered that distress was not a proper subject for merriment , or topic of ...
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