Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 strani |
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Stran xv
... tion of Juvenal's Third Satire . This poem was purchased by Dodsley for ten guineas , got into a second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was compelled , by the fact of ...
... tion of Juvenal's Third Satire . This poem was purchased by Dodsley for ten guineas , got into a second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was compelled , by the fact of ...
Stran xxiv
... tion at issue . But this very incapacity was useful to a critic of that particular age . Johnson had all the characteristically English dislike of anything that seemed ' too clever by half , ' the homely phrase in which the average ...
... tion at issue . But this very incapacity was useful to a critic of that particular age . Johnson had all the characteristically English dislike of anything that seemed ' too clever by half , ' the homely phrase in which the average ...
Stran 4
... Dryden , like the other pane gyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession and published ' Astrea Redux , a poem on the happy restora tion and return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles DRYDEN .
... Dryden , like the other pane gyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession and published ' Astrea Redux , a poem on the happy restora tion and return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles DRYDEN .
Stran 5
... tion ; and , so considered , cannot invade ; but privation like- wise certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples ...
... tion ; and , so considered , cannot invade ; but privation like- wise certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples ...
Stran 15
... tion to the pride of wisdom . But let it be remembered , that 20 minds are not levelled in their powers but when they are first levelled in their desires . Dryden and Settle had both placed their happiness in the claps of multitudes ...
... tion to the pride of wisdom . But let it be remembered , that 20 minds are not levelled in their powers but when they are first levelled in their desires . Dryden and Settle had both placed their happiness in the claps of multitudes ...
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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.