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Página 189
He prefixed a very ample preface in the form of a dedication to lord Dorset ; and
there gives an account of the design which he had once formed to write an epic
poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . · He considered the
epick ...
He prefixed a very ample preface in the form of a dedication to lord Dorset ; and
there gives an account of the design which he had once formed to write an epic
poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . · He considered the
epick ...
Página 264
... they were written ; such great actions and “ lives deserving to be the subject of
the noblest pens and most divine phansies . " He proceeds : “ Having solcong
experienced your care and indulgence , and been formed , as it were , by your
own ...
... they were written ; such great actions and “ lives deserving to be the subject of
the noblest pens and most divine phansies . " He proceeds : “ Having solcong
experienced your care and indulgence , and been formed , as it were , by your
own ...
Página 276
He then undertook an addition of Ovid's Metamorphoses , translated by several
hands ; which he recommended by a Preface , written with more ostentation than
ability : his notions are half - formed , and his materials immethodically confused .
He then undertook an addition of Ovid's Metamorphoses , translated by several
hands ; which he recommended by a Preface , written with more ostentation than
ability : his notions are half - formed , and his materials immethodically confused .
Página 474
He was certainly admitted to those meetings in which the first hints and original
plan of action are supposed to have been formed ; and was one of sixteen
Ministers , or agents of the Ministry , who met weekly at each other's houses , and
were ...
He was certainly admitted to those meetings in which the first hints and original
plan of action are supposed to have been formed ; and was one of sixteen
Ministers , or agents of the Ministry , who met weekly at each other's houses , and
were ...
Página 553
Of his social qualities , if an estimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too
favourable cannot easily be formed ; they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded
effulgence of general benevolence , and particular fondness . There is nothing
but ...
Of his social qualities , if an estimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too
favourable cannot easily be formed ; they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded
effulgence of general benevolence , and particular fondness . There is nothing
but ...
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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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