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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... Honour , which keeps prince Volfcius in a fingle boot , is faid to have alluded to the miscon- duct of the duke of Ormond , who loft Dublin to the rebels while he was toying with a mistress . The earl of Rochefter , to fupprefs the ...
... Honour , which keeps prince Volfcius in a fingle boot , is faid to have alluded to the miscon- duct of the duke of Ormond , who loft Dublin to the rebels while he was toying with a mistress . The earl of Rochefter , to fupprefs the ...
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... honour , will not be thought to love Truth only for herself . Yet it may eafily happen that information may come at a commodious time ; and , as truth and intereft are not by any fatal ne- ceffity at variance , that one may by accident ...
... honour , will not be thought to love Truth only for herself . Yet it may eafily happen that information may come at a commodious time ; and , as truth and intereft are not by any fatal ne- ceffity at variance , that one may by accident ...
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... but in it he has done me " all the honour that any man can receive from " him , which is to be railed at by him . If I had ❝ill - nature enough to prompt me to wish a very 66 " bad + " bad wifh for him , it fhould be DRYDEN . 43.
... but in it he has done me " all the honour that any man can receive from " him , which is to be railed at by him . If I had ❝ill - nature enough to prompt me to wish a very 66 " bad + " bad wifh for him , it fhould be DRYDEN . 43.
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... honour by this work , yet " he cannot lofe fo much by it as he has done by " his laft employment . " Having probably felt his own inferiority in the- ological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid ...
... honour by this work , yet " he cannot lofe fo much by it as he has done by " his laft employment . " Having probably felt his own inferiority in the- ological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid ...
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... honour and ornament of the nation , be buried " after this private manner ! No , gentlemen , let " all that loved Mr. Dryden , and honour his me mory , alight and join with me in gaining my " lady's confent to let me have the honour of ...
... honour and ornament of the nation , be buried " after this private manner ! No , gentlemen , let " all that loved Mr. Dryden , and honour his me mory , alight and join with me in gaining my " lady's confent to let me have the honour of ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volumen2 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1864 |
Términos y frases comunes
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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.