The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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... VOLUME . DRYDEN , Page 1 SMITH , DUKE , KING , SPRAT , HALIFAX , PARNELL , 141 167 169 173 179 184 GARTH , 189 ROWE , 194 ADDISON , 207 HUGHES , 274 SHEFFIELD , DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE , 279 DRY D E N. OF the great poet whofe life ( v )
... VOLUME . DRYDEN , Page 1 SMITH , DUKE , KING , SPRAT , HALIFAX , PARNELL , 141 167 169 173 179 184 GARTH , 189 ROWE , 194 ADDISON , 207 HUGHES , 274 SHEFFIELD , DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE , 279 DRY D E N. OF the great poet whofe life ( v )
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... Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ( 1668 ) , is a tragi - comedy . In the preface he difcuffes a curious queftion , whether a poet can judge well of his own productions ? and determines ...
... Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ( 1668 ) , is a tragi - comedy . In the preface he difcuffes a curious queftion , whether a poet can judge well of his own productions ? and determines ...
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... remarkable on this occafion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison efpoufed his intereft , with all the elegant judgement judgement and diffufive good - nature for which that accomplished 150 SMITH .
... remarkable on this occafion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison efpoufed his intereft , with all the elegant judgement judgement and diffufive good - nature for which that accomplished 150 SMITH .
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... Addison , whose business was to tell me that a Hiftory of the Revolution was intended , and " to propofe that I fhould undertake it . I faid , " What fhall I do with the character of Lord " Sunderland ' and Addifon immediately returned ...
... Addison , whose business was to tell me that a Hiftory of the Revolution was intended , and " to propofe that I fhould undertake it . I faid , " What fhall I do with the character of Lord " Sunderland ' and Addifon immediately returned ...
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... Addison is great ; yet the voice of the people , when to please the people is the purpofe , deferves regard . In this question , I cannot but think the people in the right . The fable is mythological , a ftory which we are accustomed to ...
... Addison is great ; yet the voice of the people , when to please the people is the purpofe , deferves regard . In this question , I cannot but think the people in the right . The fable is mythological , a ftory which we are accustomed to ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volumen2 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1864 |
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Página 109 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
Página 95 - 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. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 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.
Página 75 - 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. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Página 58 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 73 - 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. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Página 67 - Shakespeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism; exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon by Demosthenes fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished or reformed; nor can the editors and admirers of...
Página 122 - Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion, of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments.
Página 116 - There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well as his audience ; and that these, like the harlots of other men, had his love, though not his approbation. He had sometimes faults of a less generous and splendid kind.
Página 67 - Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled with instruction, and where the author proves his right of judgment by his power of performance.
Página 100 - As only buz to Heaven with evening wings ; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance ; Such are the blindfold blows of Ignorance : They know not beings,, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the same.