LivesSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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Pàgina 30
... writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet ... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on ...
... writing in verse , it can be adapted only to high and noble subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet ... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on ...
Pàgina 31
... write the third part . Epick poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least ...
... write the third part . Epick poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least ...
Pàgina 50
... writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours to persuade him that the delay proceeds not from the ... write the Masque of Comus , which was pre- sented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in ...
... writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours to persuade him that the delay proceeds not from the ... write the Masque of Comus , which was pre- sented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord President of Wales , in ...
Pàgina 59
... writing was wonderful , in 1649 published Defensio Regis To this Milton was required to write a sufficient answer ; which he performed ( 1651 ) in such a manner , that Hobbes declared himself unable to decide whose language was best ...
... writing was wonderful , in 1649 published Defensio Regis To this Milton was required to write a sufficient answer ; which he performed ( 1651 ) in such a manner , that Hobbes declared himself unable to decide whose language was best ...
Pàgina 62
... write Latin , and that man blind . Being now forty - seven years old , and seeing himself disencumbered from ex- ternal interruptions , he seems to have recollected his former purposes , and to have resumed three great works which he ...
... write Latin , and that man blind . Being now forty - seven years old , and seeing himself disencumbered from ex- ternal interruptions , he seems to have recollected his former purposes , and to have resumed three great works which he ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction Dorset Dryden duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry excellence faults favour friends genius honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present produced published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments shew shewn sometimes soon supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses Virgil virtue Waller Whigs 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...