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Pàgina 62
Samuel Johnson. As secretary to the Protector he is supposed to have written the Declaration o the reasons for a war ... written by Sir Richard Blackmore . H. Trinity College . E. The The Perfons . The Persons . Moses , Divine Justice 62 ...
Samuel Johnson. As secretary to the Protector he is supposed to have written the Declaration o the reasons for a war ... written by Sir Richard Blackmore . H. Trinity College . E. The The Perfons . The Persons . Moses , Divine Justice 62 ...
Pàgina 65
... written by L'Estrange , in a pamphlet petulantly called No Blind Guides . But whatever Milton could write , or men of greater activity could do , the King was now about to be restored with the irresistible approbation of the people . He ...
... written by L'Estrange , in a pamphlet petulantly called No Blind Guides . But whatever Milton could write , or men of greater activity could do , the King was now about to be restored with the irresistible approbation of the people . He ...
Pàgina 68
... writing , such hints as books or medi- tation would supply . Nothing particular is known of his intellectual opera ... written by whatever hand came next , " might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing ) , having ...
... writing , such hints as books or medi- tation would supply . Nothing particular is known of his intellectual opera ... written by whatever hand came next , " might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing ) , having ...
Pàgina 78
... written in a language not understood , the beginning raises no more attention than the end ; and as those that understand it know commonly the beginning best , its rehearsal will seldom be necessary . It is not likely that Milton ...
... written in a language not understood , the beginning raises no more attention than the end ; and as those that understand it know commonly the beginning best , its rehearsal will seldom be necessary . It is not likely that Milton ...
Pàgina 91
... written not by Milton , but by some imitator , it would have claimed and received universal praise . If Paradise ... writing ; he knew human na- ture only in the gross , and had never studied the shades of character , nor the ...
... written not by Milton , but by some imitator , it would have claimed and received universal praise . If Paradise ... writing ; he knew human na- ture only in the gross , and had never studied the shades of character , nor the ...
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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...