Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 páginas |
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... diction of Rome to his own conceptions.21 At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
... diction of Rome to his own conceptions.21 At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
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... diction . But Pope's account of wit is un- doubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of lan- guage . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
... diction . But Pope's account of wit is un- doubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of lan- guage . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
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... . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction shows nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance Real mirth must be Men have been wise from our.
... . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind than any other of Cowley's works . The diction shows nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance Real mirth must be Men have been wise from our.
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... diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindaric ; and , if some de- ficiencies of language be ...
... diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindaric ; and , if some de- ficiencies of language be ...
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... the original of a well - known line : God made the country , and man made the town . — Cowper . God the first garden made , and the first city Cain . - COWLEY . 1618-1667 . LANGUAGE THE DRESS OF THOUGHT . His diction 54 1618-1667 . COWLEY .
... the original of a well - known line : God made the country , and man made the town . — Cowper . God the first garden made , and the first city Cain . - COWLEY . 1618-1667 . LANGUAGE THE DRESS OF THOUGHT . His diction 54 1618-1667 . COWLEY .
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volumen1 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1864 |
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Página 341 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 364 - 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 141 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Página 21 - To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables n.
Página 162 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 74 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 380 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 364 - 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 timeful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead.
Página 76 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, " He did not steal, but emulate ! " And, when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not their cloaths, did wear.
Página xiv - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.