Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 31854 |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 100
Pagina 4
... published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions sent , or supposed to be sent , by letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this ...
... published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions sent , or supposed to be sent , by letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this ...
Pagina 5
... published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard mention made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he seemed to doubt ...
... published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard mention made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he seemed to doubt ...
Pagina 6
... published under the name of " Bickerstaff , " induced Steele , when he projected The Tatler , to as- sume an appellation which had already gained possession of the reader's notice . In the year following he wrote a Project for the ...
... published under the name of " Bickerstaff , " induced Steele , when he projected The Tatler , to as- sume an appellation which had already gained possession of the reader's notice . In the year following he wrote a Project for the ...
Pagina 7
... published a Proposal for correcting , im- proving , and ascertaining the English Tongue , in a letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature Mr. Sheridan , however , says , that Addison's last Whig ...
... published a Proposal for correcting , im- proving , and ascertaining the English Tongue , in a letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature Mr. Sheridan , however , says , that Addison's last Whig ...
Pagina 8
... published ( 1712 ) the Conduct of the Allies , ten days before the parlia- ment assembled . The purpose was to persuade the nation to a peace ; and never had any writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and ...
... published ( 1712 ) the Conduct of the Allies , ten days before the parlia- ment assembled . The purpose was to persuade the nation to a peace ; and never had any writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards Allan Ramsay appears blank verse Bolingbroke called Cato censure character College composition criticism death delight diction died diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad edition Edward Young elegant endeavoured English English poetry epitaph Essay excellence father favour Fenton friends friendship genius Homer honour Iliad imitation Ireland kind King known labour lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers opinion Oxford pastorals PAUL WHITEHEAD perhaps Philips Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed produced published racter reader reason received reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sent sometimes soon stanza Steele supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tell thing Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Westminster Abbey Whig write written wrote Young
Populaire passages
Pagina 182 - 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 unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Pagina 148 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust
Pagina 248 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Pagina 225 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up a high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Pagina 22 - Whatever he did, he seemed willing to do in a manner peculiar to himself, without sufficiently considering that singularity, as it implies a contempt of the general practice, is a kind of defiance which justly provokes the hostility of ridicule ; he, therefore, who indulges peculiar habits, is worse than others, if he be not better.
Pagina 219 - The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every other writer in poetical prudence : he wrote in such a. manner as might expose him to few hazards.
Pagina 249 - Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light;" but others, and among them Dr.
Pagina 215 - ... a letter is addressed to a single mind, of which the prejudices and partialities are known, and must therefore please, if not by favouring them, by forbearing to oppose them.
Pagina 93 - Oxford enjoined him to study Spanish; and when, some time afterwards, he came again, and said that he had mastered it, dismissed him with this congratulation, "Then, sir, I envy you the pleasure of reading 'Don Quixote
Pagina 22 - It may be justly supposed that there was in his conversation, what appears so frequently in his letters^ an affectation of familiarity with the great, an ambition of momentary equality sought and enjoyed by the neglect of those ceremonies which custom has established as the barriers between one order of society and another.