The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , for May I hold to be fuperior to both , the advantage feems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the an- cients in their language ; Cowley ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , for May I hold to be fuperior to both , the advantage feems to lie on the fide of Cowley . Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the an- cients in their language ; Cowley ...
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... ; the moralift , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To fuch a performance Suckling could have brought brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden 42 COWLEY .
... ; the moralift , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To fuch a performance Suckling could have brought brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden 42 COWLEY .
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... performances by their just value , and has therefore clofed his Mif- cellanies with the verfes upon Crafhaw , which appa- rently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore clofed his Mif- cellanies with the verfes upon Crafhaw , which appa- rently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly ...
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... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and con- trolled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authentic narrative ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and con- trolled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authentic narrative ...
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... by which envy degrades excellence . A re- port was fpread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . " The The fame attempt was made to rob Addifan of his 72 DENHA M.
... by which envy degrades excellence . A re- port was fpread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . " The The fame attempt was made to rob Addifan of his 72 DENHA M.
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 146 - In this Poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, 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.
Página 382 - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Página 395 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Página 22 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Página 165 - 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.
Página 57 - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Página 132 - that though our author had daily about him one or other to read, some persons of man's estate, who, of their own accord, greedily catched at the opportunity of being his readers, that they might as well reap the benefit of what they read to him, as oblige him by the benefit of their reading ; and others of younger years were sent by their parents to the same end...
Página 174 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Página 314 - Latin proverb, were not always the least happy; and as his fancy was quick, so likewise were the products of it remote and new. He borrowed not of any other, and his imaginations were such as could not easily enter into any other man.
Página 146 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.