The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the English poets (cont.) Lives of eminent personsG. Cowie & Company, 1825 |
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... allowed to the authour of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the Ballad Opera ; mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience ...
... allowed to the authour of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the Ballad Opera ; mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience ...
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Samuel Johnson Robert Lynam. To Trivia may be allowed all that it claims ; it is spritely , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn : yet some of his decorations may be justly ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Lynam. To Trivia may be allowed all that it claims ; it is spritely , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn : yet some of his decorations may be justly ...
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... allowed . But by a critick of a later generation , who takes up his book without any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not shew him to have had much comprehension from ...
... allowed . But by a critick of a later generation , who takes up his book without any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not shew him to have had much comprehension from ...
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... allowed to have set a good example to men of his own class , by devoting part of his time to elegant knowledge ; and who has shewn , by the subjects which his poetry has adorned , that it is practicable to be at once a skilful sportsman ...
... allowed to have set a good example to men of his own class , by devoting part of his time to elegant knowledge ; and who has shewn , by the subjects which his poetry has adorned , that it is practicable to be at once a skilful sportsman ...
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... allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requisite to excellence ; and though it is impossible to interest the com- mon readers of verse in the dangers or pleasures of the chace , he has ...
... allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requisite to excellence ; and though it is impossible to interest the com- mon readers of verse in the dangers or pleasures of the chace , he has ...
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Página 403 - The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning " Yet even these bones," are to me original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.
Página 329 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire: perhaps a sullen and surly speculator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human reason.
Página 251 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden i obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 131 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
Página 279 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And, sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust ; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest ' Blest in thy genius, in thy love, too, blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Página 300 - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments.
Página 325 - I have formerly said of his writings may be added, that his diction was often harsh, unskilfully laboured, and injudiciously selected. He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry.
Página 286 - Yet softer honours, and less noisy fame, Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham : In whom a race, for courage fam'd and art, Ends in the milder merit of the heart : And, chiefs or sages long to Britain given, Pays the last tribute of a saint to Heaven.
Página 206 - He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them, either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the 'Dunciad...
Página 402 - These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments; they strike, rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. " Double, double, toil and trouble.