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... literary work . He settled in Birmingham , and in the next year or two wrote contributions for a sort of local " Spectator , " besides trans- lating and abridging Father Lobo's " Voyage to Abyssinia " from a French translation . In 1735 ...
... literary work . He settled in Birmingham , and in the next year or two wrote contributions for a sort of local " Spectator , " besides trans- lating and abridging Father Lobo's " Voyage to Abyssinia " from a French translation . In 1735 ...
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... literary man of the age , and in a week a new edition of Johnson's poem was called for . A life of Father Paul Sarpi , the historian of the Council of Trent , was his first important con- tribution to the " Gentleman's Magazine , " and ...
... literary man of the age , and in a week a new edition of Johnson's poem was called for . A life of Father Paul Sarpi , the historian of the Council of Trent , was his first important con- tribution to the " Gentleman's Magazine , " and ...
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... literary man who had been his friend , and who had died the year before . This biography was afterwards embodied in the " Lives of the Poets . " In 1747 Johnson issued his " Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language , " addressed to ...
... literary man who had been his friend , and who had died the year before . This biography was afterwards embodied in the " Lives of the Poets . " In 1747 Johnson issued his " Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language , " addressed to ...
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... literary world of London . He continued to write for the magazines , and to one of them , the weekly " Universal Chronicle , " con- tributed during 1758-1760 the series of essays known as the " Idler . " His gloomy oriental story ...
... literary world of London . He continued to write for the magazines , and to one of them , the weekly " Universal Chronicle , " con- tributed during 1758-1760 the series of essays known as the " Idler . " His gloomy oriental story ...
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... literary undertaking was to write Prefaces , biographical and critical , to the works of the English poets , included by the syndicate of booksellers in their great edition of 1779-1781 . These Prefaces were soon repub- lished as Lives ...
... literary undertaking was to write Prefaces , biographical and critical , to the works of the English poets , included by the syndicate of booksellers in their great edition of 1779-1781 . These Prefaces were soon repub- lished as Lives ...
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Página 44 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion and the impartiality of a future generation.
Página 144 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 143 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 10 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Página 13 - ... but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation...
Página 67 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Página 74 - To exalt causes into agents, to invest abstract ideas with form and animate them with activity has always been the right of poetry. But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard, but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment or ascribe to them any material agency is to make them allegorical no longer but to shock the mind by ascribing effects...
Página 40 - King, was perhaps more than he hoped, seems not to have satisfied him; for no sooner is he safe, than he finds himself in danger, "fallen on evil days and evil tongues, and with darkness and with danger compassed round." This darkness, had his eyes been better employed, had undoubtedly deserved compassion; but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust. He was fallen indeed on " evil days ; " the time was come in which regicides could no longer boast their wickedness. But of " evil tongues...
Página 43 - The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in the present. To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders nor often gentlemen thought themselves disgraced by ignorance*. The women had not then aspired to literature 3, nor was every house supplied with a closet of knowledge.
Página 56 - ... for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries; but what image of tenderness can be excited by these lines!