The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksJohnson & Warner, 1811 |
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... CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON , L. L. D. IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I PHILADELPHIA : PUBLISHED BY JOHNSON & WARNER , 147 MARKET - STREET , 30 NOV 1963 LIBRARY 1 ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST 1811 .
... CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON , L. L. D. IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I PHILADELPHIA : PUBLISHED BY JOHNSON & WARNER , 147 MARKET - STREET , 30 NOV 1963 LIBRARY 1 ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST 1811 .
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... publish a body of Eng- lish poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted ...
... publish a body of Eng- lish poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted ...
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... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no ac- quaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the won- ders of Cowley's ...
... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no ac- quaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the won- ders of Cowley's ...
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... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedica- tion to sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due ...
... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedica- tion to sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due ...
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... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a sub- sequent edition , that poets are scarcely thought " freemen of their company without paying some ❝duties , or obliging themselves to be true to love . 66 This ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a sub- sequent edition , that poets are scarcely thought " freemen of their company without paying some ❝duties , or obliging themselves to be true to love . 66 This ...
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Página 371 - 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 26 - 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.
Página 158 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Página 24 - ... they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of...
Página 93 - ... 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 61 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 206 - Having been compelled by his necessities to contract debts, and hunted, as is supposed, by the terriers of the law, he retired to a publick house on Tower-hill, where he is said to have died of want; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-house, asked him for a shilling: the gentleman gave him a...
Página 92 - Memory and her siren daughters, 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.
Página 24 - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Página 208 - Parliament ?' The Bishop of Durham readily answered, ' God forbid, sir, but you should ; you are the breath of our nostrils.' Whereupon the king turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester, ' Well, my lord, what say you ?' 'Sir,' replied the bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases.