The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 стор. |
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... shew that the satire was un- felt . The play , supported thus by the emulation of factious praise , was acted night after night for a longer time than it is thought the public had allowed to any drama before ; and the Author , as Mrs ...
... shew that the satire was un- felt . The play , supported thus by the emulation of factious praise , was acted night after night for a longer time than it is thought the public had allowed to any drama before ; and the Author , as Mrs ...
Сторінка 109
... shew that he had perused the works with great diligence and skill . The abundance of his own mind left him little need of adventitious sen- timents ; his wit always could suggest what the occasion demanded . He had read with critical ...
... shew that he had perused the works with great diligence and skill . The abundance of his own mind left him little need of adventitious sen- timents ; his wit always could suggest what the occasion demanded . He had read with critical ...
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... shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . He produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty- fifth year . Upon this , Johnson declares , that 66 among all the efforts of early genius which literary ...
... shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . He produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty- fifth year . Upon this , Johnson declares , that 66 among all the efforts of early genius which literary ...
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... shew little wit , and little virtue . " " Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that " Pindar's Odes were ...
... shew little wit , and little virtue . " " Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that " Pindar's Odes were ...
Сторінка 138
... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an " Epistle to Boileau . He published soon after a volume of poems . The battle of Ramilies ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry , and in the paper of the ...
... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an " Epistle to Boileau . He published soon after a volume of poems . The battle of Ramilies ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry , and in the paper of the ...
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Сторінка 291 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Сторінка 114 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Сторінка 63 - But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them.
Сторінка 252 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Сторінка 78 - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
Сторінка 309 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Сторінка 78 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.
Сторінка 79 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Сторінка 112 - Cato' it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion :" here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
Сторінка 132 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.