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Pagina 63
3 Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the familiar
part of language continues long the same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is
transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with
equal ...
3 Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the familiar
part of language continues long the same ; the dialogue of comedy , when it is
transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with
equal ...
Pagina 236
Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant
for dia . logue . ' It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and
tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life ,
upon ...
Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant
for dia . logue . ' It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and
tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life ,
upon ...
Pagina 267
i of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a
Babylonish Dialeet , in itself harsh and barbarous , but made , by exalted genius
and extensive learn . ing , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much
pleasure ...
i of Spenser , that he wrote no language , but has formed what Butler calls a
Babylonish Dialeet , in itself harsh and barbarous , but made , by exalted genius
and extensive learn . ing , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much
pleasure ...
Pagina 268
But one language cannot communicate its rules to another ' : where metre is
scanty and imperfect , fome help is necesfary . The musick of the English heroick
line strikes the ear fo faintly , that it is easily lost , unless all the syllables of every
line ...
But one language cannot communicate its rules to another ' : where metre is
scanty and imperfect , fome help is necesfary . The musick of the English heroick
line strikes the ear fo faintly , that it is easily lost , unless all the syllables of every
line ...
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... and the language itself entirely unknown to all men of good breeding . The
style of Billingsgate would not make a very agreeable figure at St. James's . A
gentleman would would take but little pleasure in language , which he 452 J.
PHILIPS.
... and the language itself entirely unknown to all men of good breeding . The
style of Billingsgate would not make a very agreeable figure at St. James's . A
gentleman would would take but little pleasure in language , which he 452 J.
PHILIPS.
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Pagina 30 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Pagina 260 - But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment or ascribe to them any material agency is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity.
Pagina 40 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 1 The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, John Rivington |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Bijdrager | John Rivington |
| Uitgever | J. Rivington & Sons, L. Davis, B. White & Son, T. Longman, B. Law, ... [and 35 others in London], 1790 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 19 juni 2007 |
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