The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Količina 2A. V. Blake, 1843 |
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... English Dictionary · PITT • • • • 264 Preface to the English Dictionary • 439 446 THOMSON 265 Advertisement to the Fourth Edition of the · WATTS 267 • English Dictionary • 455 WEST A. PHILIPS COLLINS • Dictionary 271 Preface to the ...
... English Dictionary · PITT • • • • 264 Preface to the English Dictionary • 439 446 THOMSON 265 Advertisement to the Fourth Edition of the · WATTS 267 • English Dictionary • 455 WEST A. PHILIPS COLLINS • Dictionary 271 Preface to the ...
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... ENGLISH POETS COWLEY . THE Life of. PAGE . PAGE . REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS . Du Halde's History of China Account of the Conduct of the Dutchess of Marlborough 590 591 A view of the Controversy between Monsieur Crousaz and Mr. Warburton on ...
... ENGLISH POETS COWLEY . THE Life of. PAGE . PAGE . REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS . Du Halde's History of China Account of the Conduct of the Dutchess of Marlborough 590 591 A view of the Controversy between Monsieur Crousaz and Mr. Warburton on ...
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... ENGLISH POETS COWLEY . THE Life of COWLEY , notwithstanding the pen - time , that his teachers never could bring it to re- ury of English biography , has been written by tain the ordinary rules of grammar . " Dr. Sprat , an author whose ...
... ENGLISH POETS COWLEY . THE Life of COWLEY , notwithstanding the pen - time , that his teachers never could bring it to re- ury of English biography , has been written by tain the ordinary rules of grammar . " Dr. Sprat , an author whose ...
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... English literature , and show such skill has some epitaphs without names ; which are as raises our wish for more examples . therefore epitaphs to be let , occupied indeed for the present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is ...
... English literature , and show such skill has some epitaphs without names ; which are as raises our wish for more examples . therefore epitaphs to be let , occupied indeed for the present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is ...
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... English line can his mind , for , in the verses on the government equal . of Cromwell he inserts theml iberally with great happiness . After so much criticism on his poems , the essays which accompany them must not be for- gotten . What ...
... English line can his mind , for , in the verses on the government equal . of Cromwell he inserts theml iberally with great happiness . After so much criticism on his poems , the essays which accompany them must not be for- gotten . What ...
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Stran 252 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Stran 148 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Stran 268 - His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the
Stran 259 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Stran 268 - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cow-ley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows...
Stran 301 - These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments, they strike rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. "Double, double, toil and trouble.
Stran 172 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the ' Beggar's Opera.' He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word...
Stran 234 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. 'For,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Stran 8 - From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
Stran 8 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without...