Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volumen58J. Nichols, 1781 |
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... allowed that the proper teft has not been chofen .. The attention paid to the papers published under the name of Bickerstaff , induced Steele , when he projected the Tatler , to affume an appellation which had had already gained ...
... allowed that the proper teft has not been chofen .. The attention paid to the papers published under the name of Bickerstaff , induced Steele , when he projected the Tatler , to affume an appellation which had had already gained ...
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... allowed to have the ad- vantage ; for where a wide fyftem of con- duct , and the whole of a publick character , is laid open to enquiry , the accufer having the choice of facts , must be very unskilful if he does not prevail ; but with ...
... allowed to have the ad- vantage ; for where a wide fyftem of con- duct , and the whole of a publick character , is laid open to enquiry , the accufer having the choice of facts , must be very unskilful if he does not prevail ; but with ...
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... allowed , that the childish free- dom , to which he feems enough in-- clined , was overpowered by his better- qualities . His difinterestednefs has been likewife mentioned ; a ftrain of heroifm , which would have been in his condition ...
... allowed , that the childish free- dom , to which he feems enough in-- clined , was overpowered by his better- qualities . His difinterestednefs has been likewife mentioned ; a ftrain of heroifm , which would have been in his condition ...
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... Letter to a Lady on her Marriage , may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female ex- cellence ought implicitly to be admit- ted ; for if his general thoughts on wo- men men were fuch as he exhibits , a very little 170 SWIFT .
... Letter to a Lady on her Marriage , may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female ex- cellence ought implicitly to be admit- ted ; for if his general thoughts on wo- men men were fuch as he exhibits , a very little 170 SWIFT .
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... allowed himself to be delighted with low flattery.me + On all common occafions , he habi- tually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than perfuades . This au- thoritative and magifterial language he expected to be ...
... allowed himself to be delighted with low flattery.me + On all common occafions , he habi- tually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than perfuades . This au- thoritative and magifterial language he expected to be ...
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Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1781 |
PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS. SAMUEL JOHNSON Vista completa - 1781 |
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Página 30 - A Pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers, and purling rivulets, through five acts? Such scenes please Barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life; but will be for the most part thrown away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned.
Página 21 - But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.
Página 21 - 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 themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
Página 19 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her Life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Página 7 - Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to...
Página 18 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Página 14 - Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time -combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
Página 101 - ... enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another. This transgression of regularity was by himself and his admirers termed greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away.
Página 97 - But if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drank with me.