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 xi
... what we call the points de repère . To get these rightly chosen and thoroughly known is the great matter . For my part , in thinking of this or that line of study which human minds follow , I feel always prompted PREFACE . xi.
... what we call the points de repère . To get these rightly chosen and thoroughly known is the great matter . For my part , in thinking of this or that line of study which human minds follow , I feel always prompted PREFACE . xi.
Stran xiv
... known centre of departure and return , to the student of English literature . I know of no such first - rate piece of literature , for supply- ing in this way the wants of the literary student , existing at all in any other language ...
... known centre of departure and return , to the student of English literature . I know of no such first - rate piece of literature , for supply- ing in this way the wants of the literary student , existing at all in any other language ...
Stran xxiv
... known the author ! " True , he is capable of maintaining " that the description of the temple in Congreve's Mourning Bride was the finest poetical passage he had ever read— he recollected none in Shakespeare equal to it . " But we are ...
... known the author ! " True , he is capable of maintaining " that the description of the temple in Congreve's Mourning Bride was the finest poetical passage he had ever read— he recollected none in Shakespeare equal to it . " But we are ...
Stran 3
... known a freshman of equal attainments . At Oxford , Johnson resided during about three years . He was poor , even to raggedness ; and his appearance excited a mirth and a pity , which were equally intolerable to his haughty spirit . He ...
... known a freshman of equal attainments . At Oxford , Johnson resided during about three years . He was poor , even to raggedness ; and his appearance excited a mirth and a pity , which were equally intolerable to his haughty spirit . He ...
Stran 4
... known by turning Pope's Messiah into Latin verse . The style and rhythm , indeed , were not exactly Virgilian ; but the translation found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . The time drew near at which Johnson ...
... known by turning Pope's Messiah into Latin verse . The style and rhythm , indeed , were not exactly Virgilian ; but the translation found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . The time drew near at which Johnson ...
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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.