The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's "Life of Johnson"Macmillan, 1886 - 463 strani |
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Stran xii
... desires even so much as a general acquaintance with English literature ; —and so much acquaintance as this who does not desire ? The work as Johnson published it is not fitted to serve as such a text - book ; it is too extensive , and ...
... desires even so much as a general acquaintance with English literature ; —and so much acquaintance as this who does not desire ? The work as Johnson published it is not fitted to serve as such a text - book ; it is too extensive , and ...
Stran xvii
... desire to ascend upwards to our anterior literature , or to come downwards to the literature of yesterday and of the present . The six lives cover a period of literary and intellectual movement in which we are all profoundly interested ...
... desire to ascend upwards to our anterior literature , or to come downwards to the literature of yesterday and of the present . The six lives cover a period of literary and intellectual movement in which we are all profoundly interested ...
Stran xix
... desire for a good prose - a prose plain , direct , intelligible , serviceable . A dead language , the Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet discovered ...
... desire for a good prose - a prose plain , direct , intelligible , serviceable . A dead language , the Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet discovered ...
Stran xxvii
... desire , to tell the story of a whole important age of English literature in one compendious volume - itself , at the same time , a piece of English literature of the very first class . Such a work the reader has in his hands in the ...
... desire , to tell the story of a whole important age of English literature in one compendious volume - itself , at the same time , a piece of English literature of the very first class . Such a work the reader has in his hands in the ...
Stran 49
... desire of obtaining more fitness for his task ; and that he goes on , not taking thought of being late , so it give advantage to be more fit . When he left the university , he returned to his father , then residing at Horton in ...
... desire of obtaining more fitness for his task ; and that he goes on , not taking thought of being late , so it give advantage to be more fit . When he left the university , he returned to his father , then residing at Horton in ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears Bolingbroke called Cato censure character Charles Dryden considered criticism death delight desire diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl edition elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay Euripides excellence fame faults favour Fcap friends genius Homer honour hundred Iliad Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson judgement Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning Letters lines literary literature lived Lord Lord Halifax manner MATTHEW ARNOLD Milton mind nature never opinion Paradise Lost passages passions perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface prose publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments Shakspeare shew shewn sometimes Sophocles Steele style supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tell thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses virtue Whig words write written wrote
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Stran 196 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Stran 107 - 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...
Stran 346 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Stran 297 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Stran 177 - 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.
Stran 212 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
Stran 96 - Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Stran 209 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.