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Página 84
In the examination of epick poems much speculation is commonly employed
upon the characters . ... For there are thoughts , as he justly remarks , which no
observation of character can justify , because no good man would willingly permit
...
In the examination of epick poems much speculation is commonly employed
upon the characters . ... For there are thoughts , as he justly remarks , which no
observation of character can justify , because no good man would willingly permit
...
Página 306
The remark of Mandeville , who , when he had passed an evening in his
company , declared that he was a parson in a tye - wig , can detract little from his
character ; he was always reserved to strangers , and was act incited to
uncommon ...
The remark of Mandeville , who , when he had passed an evening in his
company , declared that he was a parson in a tye - wig , can detract little from his
character ; he was always reserved to strangers , and was act incited to
uncommon ...
Página 307
... since , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed , though
his station made him conspicuous , and his activity made him formidable , the
character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies : of
those ...
... since , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed , though
his station made him conspicuous , and his activity made him formidable , the
character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies : of
those ...
Página 363
Correction seldom effects more than the suppression of faults : a happy line , or a
single elegance , may perhaps be added ; but of a large work the general
character niust always remain ; the original constitution can be very little helped
by ...
Correction seldom effects more than the suppression of faults : a happy line , or a
single elegance , may perhaps be added ; but of a large work the general
character niust always remain ; the original constitution can be very little helped
by ...
Página 571
The « Characters of men and Women ” are the product of diligent speculation
upon human life ; much labour has been ... the character of Atossa is not so
neatly finished as that'of Clodio ; and some of the female characters may be
found ...
The « Characters of men and Women ” are the product of diligent speculation
upon human life ; much labour has been ... the character of Atossa is not so
neatly finished as that'of Clodio ; and some of the female characters may be
found ...
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Página 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Página 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Página 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 218 - 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 tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Página 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Página 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Página 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 36 - 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 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Lives Volumen1 de The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | A. Miller, 1800 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 23 Nov. 2006 |
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