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Pagina 15
... it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it
many excellences , and did not discover that it wanted that without which ali
others are of small avail , the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity .
... it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it
many excellences , and did not discover that it wanted that without which ali
others are of small avail , the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity .
Pagina 16
Unhappily this pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover .
We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and
delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every
couplet ...
Unhappily this pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover .
We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and
delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every
couplet ...
Pagina 18
... another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has
formed his new stanza to that of his master these specimens will shew :
SPENSER . She flying fast from Heaven's hated face , And from the world that her
discovered ...
... another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has
formed his new stanza to that of his master these specimens will shew :
SPENSER . She flying fast from Heaven's hated face , And from the world that her
discovered ...
Pagina 27
It cannot be observed without wonder , that a mind so vigorous and fertile in
dramatic compositions , should on any other occasion discover nothing but
impotence and poverty . He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy ,
selection ...
It cannot be observed without wonder , that a mind so vigorous and fertile in
dramatic compositions , should on any other occasion discover nothing but
impotence and poverty . He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy ,
selection ...
Pagina 34
Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep
his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he
affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem he justly censured ...
Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep
his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he
affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem he justly censured ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2 Volume 419 van Collection of British and American authors Collection of British authors ; no. 418-419 Volume 418 van Collection of British authors The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Uitgever | B. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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