Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Том 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 стор. |
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... copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some useful information to the Lives of ...
... copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some useful information to the Lives of ...
Сторінка xiv
... copies will lose all resemblance of the original . If the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is danger lest his interest , his fear , his gratitude , or his tenderness ...
... copies will lose all resemblance of the original . If the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is danger lest his interest , his fear , his gratitude , or his tenderness ...
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... copy of the Lives ( which I have seen ) with this lettering , " Johnson's Beauties and Deformities ; " his own part of the book exhibiting the deformities of Johnson rather exaggerated than improved . Even in his few good EDITOR'S ...
... copy of the Lives ( which I have seen ) with this lettering , " Johnson's Beauties and Deformities ; " his own part of the book exhibiting the deformities of Johnson rather exaggerated than improved . Even in his few good EDITOR'S ...
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... agreement for the Lives was two hundred guineas ; and for this sum he was to part with the entire copy- right . The success of the work , and Johnson's enlargement Life of Pope . ' of the design , induced the booksellers to add one.
... agreement for the Lives was two hundred guineas ; and for this sum he was to part with the entire copy- right . The success of the work , and Johnson's enlargement Life of Pope . ' of the design , induced the booksellers to add one.
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... copies , and inflict a severer punishment on them himself than perhaps he tells us the most rigid officer of state would have thought that they deserved . Three books of the Civil War , reaching as far as the first battle of Newbury ...
... copies , and inflict a severer punishment on them himself than perhaps he tells us the most rigid officer of state would have thought that they deserved . Three books of the Civil War , reaching as far as the first battle of Newbury ...
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Сторінка 341 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Сторінка 364 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Сторінка 141 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Сторінка 21 - To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables n.
Сторінка 162 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Сторінка 74 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Сторінка 380 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Сторінка 364 - 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 timeful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead.
Сторінка 76 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, " He did not steal, but emulate ! " And, when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not their cloaths, did wear.
Сторінка xiv - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.