LivesSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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Pàgina 3
... passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but roughdrawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this ...
... passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a representation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but roughdrawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this ...
Pàgina 5
Samuel Johnson. Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " passed of course into other " hands , " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , “ under pretence of privacy and ...
Samuel Johnson. Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " passed of course into other " hands , " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , “ under pretence of privacy and ...
Pàgina 50
... passing through a place called the Hay - wood Forest , or Haywood in Herefordshire , were benighted , and the lady for a short time lost : this accident being related to their father upon their arrival at his castle , Milton , at the ...
... passing through a place called the Hay - wood Forest , or Haywood in Herefordshire , were benighted , and the lady for a short time lost : this accident being related to their father upon their arrival at his castle , Milton , at the ...
Pàgina 52
... passed on to Naples , in company of a hermit ; a companion from whom little could be expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso marquis of Villa , who had before been the patron of Taffo . Manso was enough delighted ...
... passed on to Naples , in company of a hermit ; a companion from whom little could be expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso marquis of Villa , who had before been the patron of Taffo . Manso was enough delighted ...
Pàgina 97
... passed the life of Butler , a man whose name can enly perish with his language . The mode and place of his education are un- known ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told . with certainty is , that he ...
... passed the life of Butler , a man whose name can enly perish with his language . The mode and place of his education are un- known ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told . with certainty is , that he ...
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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...