LivesSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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... verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be enquited before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told ...
... verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be enquited before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told ...
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... verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained is author no friends among the abettors of usurpation . A doctor of ... verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses ...
... verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained is author no friends among the abettors of usurpation . A doctor of ... verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of Flowers in various measures ; and in the fifth and sixth , the uses ...
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... verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His # 1663 . Here is an error in the designation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page of the later editions of Cowley's works : the ...
... verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His # 1663 . Here is an error in the designation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page of the later editions of Cowley's works : the ...
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... verses , and very often'such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticim has rightly ...
... verses , and very often'such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticim has rightly ...
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... verses we have an allusion to a Rabbinical opinion con- cerning Manna : Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The Person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal ...
... verses we have an allusion to a Rabbinical opinion con- cerning Manna : Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The Person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal ...
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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
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...