The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xii
... pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader ...
... pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader ...
Pàgina xiv
... pleasure . ' And while on the one hand Johnson seems to insist that not the subject but its treatment discovers the poet , on the other he is ever scrupulous to distinguish between the writer and the man . Unlike the worthy Matthew ...
... pleasure . ' And while on the one hand Johnson seems to insist that not the subject but its treatment discovers the poet , on the other he is ever scrupulous to distinguish between the writer and the man . Unlike the worthy Matthew ...
Pàgina xv
... pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected : that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement , but will never strike with the sense of ...
... pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected : that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement , but will never strike with the sense of ...
Pàgina xvi
... pleasure . ' For uniformity must tire at last , though it be uniformity of excellence . ' It is precisely the want of these two requisites- novelty and variety - that renders devotional poetry for the most part unpleasing . The paucity ...
... pleasure . ' For uniformity must tire at last , though it be uniformity of excellence . ' It is precisely the want of these two requisites- novelty and variety - that renders devotional poetry for the most part unpleasing . The paucity ...
Pàgina xvii
... pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him that thinks ...
... pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him that thinks ...
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