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 xxii
... genius of our people could not but urge irresistibly to the production of a real prose style , because for the purposes of modern life the old English prose , the prose of Milton and Taylor , is cumbersome , unavailable , impossible . A ...
... genius of our people could not but urge irresistibly to the production of a real prose style , because for the purposes of modern life the old English prose , the prose of Milton and Taylor , is cumbersome , unavailable , impossible . A ...
Stran 10
... Genius still continued to weep . Hampden deserved no more honourable name than that of " the zealot of rebellion . " Even the ship money , condemned not less decidedly by Falkland and Clarendon than by the bitterest Roundheads , Johnson ...
... Genius still continued to weep . Hampden deserved no more honourable name than that of " the zealot of rebellion . " Even the ship money , condemned not less decidedly by Falkland and Clarendon than by the bitterest Roundheads , Johnson ...
Stran 12
... genius was welcomed . He made inquiries about the author of London . Such a man , he said , could not long be concealed . The name was soon discovered ; and Pope , with great kind- ness , exerted himself to obtain an academical degree ...
... genius was welcomed . He made inquiries about the author of London . Such a man , he said , could not long be concealed . The name was soon discovered ; and Pope , with great kind- ness , exerted himself to obtain an academical degree ...
Stran 14
... genius ; and the praise of Warburton was then no light thing . Such was Johnson's reputation that , in 1747 , several eminent booksellers combined to employ him in the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language , in ...
... genius ; and the praise of Warburton was then no light thing . Such was Johnson's reputation that , in 1747 , several eminent booksellers combined to employ him in the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language , in ...
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... genius and learning cannot be reckoned , solicited the acquaintance of the writer . In consequence probably of the good offices of Dodington , who was then , the confidential adviser of Prince Frederick , two of his Royal Highness's ...
... genius and learning cannot be reckoned , solicited the acquaintance of the writer . In consequence probably of the good offices of Dodington , who was then , the confidential adviser of Prince Frederick , two of his Royal Highness's ...
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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.