Lives |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 5.
Pàgina 79
But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they
differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ;
the combinations of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and ...
But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they
differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ;
the combinations of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and ...
Pàgina 227
If indeed , there is any excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that
excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be
pronounced perhaps superiour in the whole ; but without any single part , equal
to ...
If indeed , there is any excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that
excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be
pronounced perhaps superiour in the whole ; but without any single part , equal
to ...
Pàgina 401
Somervile has tried many modes of poetry ; and thoughi perhaps he has not in
any reached such excellence as to raise much envy , it may commonly be said at
least that “ he writes very well for a gentleman . ” His serious pieces are ...
Somervile has tried many modes of poetry ; and thoughi perhaps he has not in
any reached such excellence as to raise much envy , it may commonly be said at
least that “ he writes very well for a gentleman . ” His serious pieces are ...
Pàgina 539
Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for
excellence is not often gained upon easier terms . But to the particular species of
excellence men are direcied , nor by an ascendant planet or predominating ...
Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for
excellence is not often gained upon easier terms . But to the particular species of
excellence men are direcied , nor by an ascendant planet or predominating ...
Pàgina 571
doctrine of the Essay , disrobed of its ornaments , is left to the powers of its naked
excellence , what shall we discover ? That we are , in comparison with our
Creator , very weak and ignorant ; that we do not uphold the chain of existence ;
and ...
doctrine of the Essay , disrobed of its ornaments , is left to the powers of its naked
excellence , what shall we discover ? That we are , in comparison with our
Creator , very weak and ignorant ; that we do not uphold the chain of existence ;
and ...
Què en diuen els usuaris - Escriviu una ressenya
No hem trobat cap ressenya als llocs habituals.
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
Addison afterwards appears attention believe called character common considered continued conversation criticism death delight desire died discovered Dryden easily effect elegance English equal excellence expected expression favour formed friends gave genius give given hand honour hope imagination Italy kind King knowledge known Lady language learning least less letter lines lived Lord manner means mentioned Milton mind nature never night numbers observed obtained occasion once opinion original passed performance perhaps person play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise present probably produced published reader reason received remarks reputation Savage says seems sent shew sometimes soon success sufficient supposed tell thing thought tion told tragedy translation true verses virtue whole write written wrote Young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pàgina 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Pàgina 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Pàgina 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Pàgina 218 - 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 tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Pàgina 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Pàgina 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Pàgina 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Pàgina 36 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Pàgina 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Lives Volum 1 de The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | A. Miller, 1800 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalitzat el | 23 Nov. 2006 |
| Exporta citacions | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |