The Works of Samuel Johnson, Том 9Nichols, 1816 |
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... poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- ance the numbers are ... blank verse . " COOPER'S HILL , " if it be maliciously inspected , * By Garth , in his " Poem on Claremont ; " and ...
... poem on the death of Cowley was his last , and , among his shorter works , his best perform- ance the numbers are ... blank verse . " COOPER'S HILL , " if it be maliciously inspected , * By Garth , in his " Poem on Claremont ; " and ...
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... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
... blank verse , particularly one tending to reconcile the nation to Raleigh's wild attempt upon Guiana , and probably written by Raleigh himself . These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more ...
Сторінка 181
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critick , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to sup- port ...
... Blank verse , said an ingenious critick , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not often please ; nor can rhyme ever be safely spared but where the subject is able to sup- port ...
Сторінка 182
... blank verse ; but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme . The highest praise of genius is original invention . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the structure of an epic poem , and therefore owes reverence to ...
... blank verse ; but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme . The highest praise of genius is original invention . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the structure of an epic poem , and therefore owes reverence to ...
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... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly di- dactick , without rhyme , is so near to prose , that ...
... Blank verse , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images . A poem frigidly di- dactick , without rhyme , is so near to prose , that ...
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Сторінка 91 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Сторінка 77 - 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 382 - DEYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them.
Сторінка 413 - 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 150 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Сторінка 257 - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz.
Сторінка 169 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Сторінка 433 - 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 150 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. 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 has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can. tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Сторінка 75 - But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise : Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built, Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.