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Pagina 20
It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon
life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature .
They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the ...
It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon
life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature .
They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the ...
Pagina 25
He was rewarded with a thousand pounds , and his book was much read : for
paradox , recommended by spirit and elegance , easily gains attention ; and he
who told every man that he was equal to his king could hardly want an audience .
He was rewarded with a thousand pounds , and his book was much read : for
paradox , recommended by spirit and elegance , easily gains attention ; and he
who told every man that he was equal to his king could hardly want an audience .
Pagina 46
Of a book written in a language not understood , the beginning raises no more
attention than the end ; and as those that understand it know commonly the
beginning best , its rehearsal will seldom be necessary . It is not likely that Milton
...
Of a book written in a language not understood , the beginning raises no more
attention than the end ; and as those that understand it know commonly the
beginning best , its rehearsal will seldom be necessary . It is not likely that Milton
...
Pagina 50
In all these parts the language is poetical , and the sentiments are generous ; but
there is something wanting to allure attention . The dispute between the lady and
Comus is the most animated and affecting scene of the drama ; and wants ...
In all these parts the language is poetical , and the sentiments are generous ; but
there is something wanting to allure attention . The dispute between the lady and
Comus is the most animated and affecting scene of the drama ; and wants ...
Pagina 54
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention , and employs the memory
rather than the fancy , Milton ' s delight was to sport in the wide regions of
possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out
upon ...
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention , and employs the memory
rather than the fancy , Milton ' s delight was to sport in the wide regions of
possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out
upon ...
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Pagina 85 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 21 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pagina 141 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 110 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Pagina 195 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Pagina 89 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Pagina 34 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Pagina 205 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Pagina 19 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boardingschool 3.
Pagina 100 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic, for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2 Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, William Hazlitt Nat. illustr. libr |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| gepubliceerd | 1854 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 14 juni 2006 |
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