The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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Sivu 21
... praise may fafely be credited , as it has never been contra- dicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war ...
... praise may fafely be credited , as it has never been contra- dicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war ...
Sivu 77
... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently copied by Garth and Pope ; after whofe names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the ifland not dignified either by rhyme ...
... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently copied by Garth and Pope ; after whofe names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the ifland not dignified either by rhyme ...
Sivu 85
... praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice difcern- ment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
... praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice difcern- ment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
Sivu 92
... praise of Leonora , was published at Rome ; and there is a fine eu- logium on her in the Difcours fur la mufique d ' Italie , printed with the life of Malherbe . Vide Bayle , Art . BARONI . Gen , Hift . of the Science and Practice of ...
... praise of Leonora , was published at Rome ; and there is a fine eu- logium on her in the Difcours fur la mufique d ' Italie , printed with the life of Malherbe . Vide Bayle , Art . BARONI . Gen , Hift . of the Science and Practice of ...
Sivu 105
... hope of human attainment ; and having , by exceffive praises , been confirmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much confi- dered dered the principles of fociety or the rights of govern- MILTON . 105.
... hope of human attainment ; and having , by exceffive praises , been confirmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much confi- dered dered the principles of fociety or the rights of govern- MILTON . 105.
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Sivu 146 - In this Poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Sivu 382 - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Sivu 395 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Sivu 22 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Sivu 165 - 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.
Sivu 57 - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Sivu 132 - that though our author had daily about him one or other to read, some persons of man's estate, who, of their own accord, greedily catched at the opportunity of being his readers, that they might as well reap the benefit of what they read to him, as oblige him by the benefit of their reading ; and others of younger years were sent by their parents to the same end...
Sivu 174 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Sivu 314 - Latin proverb, were not always the least happy; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other, and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man.
Sivu 146 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.