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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... excellence , supremely powerful and influential in the last century , the first to come and standing at first alone , a modern prose . French prose is marked in the highest degree by the qualities of regularity , uniformity , precision ...
... excellence , supremely powerful and influential in the last century , the first to come and standing at first alone , a modern prose . French prose is marked in the highest degree by the qualities of regularity , uniformity , precision ...
Stran 71
... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
Stran 91
... excellence were different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been ...
... excellence were different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been ...
Stran 95
... excellence ; if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem ...
... excellence ; if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem ...
Stran 108
... excellence is amplitude , and he expands the adventitious image beyond the dimensions which the occasion required . Thus , comparing the shield of Satan to the orb of the Moon , he crowds the imagination with the discovery of the ...
... excellence is amplitude , and he expands the adventitious image beyond the dimensions which the occasion required . Thus , comparing the shield of Satan to the orb of the Moon , he crowds the imagination with the discovery of the ...
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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.