Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 strani |
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Stran xii
... give an account of it , together with his own ideas on many matters of interest in connection with the country , and in particular as to the sources of the Nile and the reason of its floods . A tale is told of Johnson , when engaged on ...
... give an account of it , together with his own ideas on many matters of interest in connection with the country , and in particular as to the sources of the Nile and the reason of its floods . A tale is told of Johnson , when engaged on ...
Stran xvii
... gives , he gives the best . ' The singularity of this intellectual position , and its wide dif- ference from that of Voltaire , have been more fully considered elsewhere , à propos of Rasselas . But it is well to note here again how ...
... gives , he gives the best . ' The singularity of this intellectual position , and its wide dif- ference from that of Voltaire , have been more fully considered elsewhere , à propos of Rasselas . But it is well to note here again how ...
Stran xxiv
... give stability to the English language , and in this he failed , as it was inevitable he should . But his criticism ... gives an answer as happily expressed as INTRODUCTION .
... give stability to the English language , and in this he failed , as it was inevitable he should . But his criticism ... gives an answer as happily expressed as INTRODUCTION .
Stran xxv
Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. to this Johnson gives an answer as happily expressed as it i accurate : - ' Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect ' ( p . 87 ) . There is , it need hardly be ...
Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. to this Johnson gives an answer as happily expressed as it i accurate : - ' Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect ' ( p . 87 ) . There is , it need hardly be ...
Stran xxviii
... gives him a subject on which he may earn . Dryden's poems were almost all occasional , and ' the occasional poet is circumscribed by the narrowness of his subject . Whatever can happen to man has happened so often , that little remains ...
... gives him a subject on which he may earn . Dryden's poems were almost all occasional , and ' the occasional poet is circumscribed by the narrowness of his subject . Whatever can happen to man has happened so often , that little remains ...
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Stran 86 - FROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began : When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey.
Stran xix - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Stran 314 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Stran 152 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Stran xix - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Stran 188 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Stran 246 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Stran 291 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath. Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Stran 275 - Hope's delusive mine," as Johnson finely says ; and I may also quote the celebrated lines of Dryden, equally philosophical and poetical :— " When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit — Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Stran 153 - 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.