Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and IllustrationsE. Newbery, 1797 - 239 páginas |
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... writing than to gain money , as he had now what was abundantly fufficient for all his purposes , as he delighted in converfation , and was vifited and admired by the witty , the elegant , and the learned , very little of his time was ...
... writing than to gain money , as he had now what was abundantly fufficient for all his purposes , as he delighted in converfation , and was vifited and admired by the witty , the elegant , and the learned , very little of his time was ...
Página xvi
... written between eight o'clock on Wed- nefday night and twelve o'clock on the Thurfday night , when it was read to Mr. Thrale upon his co- ming from the houfe of commons . In 1771 he pub- lifhed another political pamphlet , intitled ...
... written between eight o'clock on Wed- nefday night and twelve o'clock on the Thurfday night , when it was read to Mr. Thrale upon his co- ming from the houfe of commons . In 1771 he pub- lifhed another political pamphlet , intitled ...
Página xxi
... and his works will be read with veneration for their author as long as the language in which they are written fhall be understood . CON- COWLEY WALLER MILTON BUTLER DRYDEN DENHAM SPRAT ROSCOMMON ROCHESTER YALDEN LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . xxi.
... and his works will be read with veneration for their author as long as the language in which they are written fhall be understood . CON- COWLEY WALLER MILTON BUTLER DRYDEN DENHAM SPRAT ROSCOMMON ROCHESTER YALDEN LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . xxi.
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... written when he was ten years old ; and " Conftantia and Philetus , " written two years after . Dr. Johnfon does not mention the place of his birth , but other re- fpectable authorities inform us , that it was in Fleet - ftreet , near ...
... written when he was ten years old ; and " Conftantia and Philetus , " written two years after . Dr. Johnfon does not mention the place of his birth , but other re- fpectable authorities inform us , that it was in Fleet - ftreet , near ...
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... written , while a young ftudent , the greater part of his " Davi- deis , " a work which proves him to have poffeffed a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his fettlement at Cambridge , he pub- lifhed " Love's ...
... written , while a young ftudent , the greater part of his " Davi- deis , " a work which proves him to have poffeffed a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his fettlement at Cambridge , he pub- lifhed " Love's ...
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Página 146 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
Página 49 - Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious.
Página 31 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Página 239 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Página 151 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Página 49 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. 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 33 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Página 238 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Página 148 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...
Página xii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.