The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1J.F. Dove, and sold by all the booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1826 - 420 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the ad- . vantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the ad- . vantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
Pagina 30
... performance , Suck- ling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
... performance , Suck- ling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
Pagina 31
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
Pagina 39
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative , and ...
Pagina 51
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same at- tempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same at- tempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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Pagina 69 - 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 5 - Queen; in which he very early took delight to read, till by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Pagina 389 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. 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.
Pagina 28 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show 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' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Pagina 316 - James, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Pagina 67 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong...
Pagina 66 - 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 boarding-school.
Pagina 96 - ... to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufacture, that are proper for women to learn, particularly embroideries in gold or silver.
Pagina 124 - But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance: he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them.
Pagina 272 - 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!