Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Milton. ButlerJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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Pagina 79
... fancy , and the melody of his numbers . He had done what he knew to be neceffarily previous to poetical excellence ; he had made himself acquainted with feemly arts and affairs ; his comprehenfion was extended by various knowledge , and ...
... fancy , and the melody of his numbers . He had done what he knew to be neceffarily previous to poetical excellence ; he had made himself acquainted with feemly arts and affairs ; his comprehenfion was extended by various knowledge , and ...
Pagina 101
... fancy 66 never fo much ; fo that , in all the years he was about this poem , he may " be faid to have fpent half his time " therein . " Upon this relation Toland remarks , that in his opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ...
... fancy 66 never fo much ; fo that , in all the years he was about this poem , he may " be faid to have fpent half his time " therein . " Upon this relation Toland remarks , that in his opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ...
Pagina 104
... fancy , wild as it is , he had not wholly cleared his head , when he feared left the climate of his country might be too cold for flights of imagination . Into a mind already occupied by fuch fancies , another Into 104 MILTON ...
... fancy , wild as it is , he had not wholly cleared his head , when he feared left the climate of his country might be too cold for flights of imagination . Into a mind already occupied by fuch fancies , another Into 104 MILTON ...
Pagina 119
... Fancy can hardly forbear to conjec- ture with what temper Milton furveyed the filent progrefs of his work , and marked his reputation ftealing its way in a kind of fubterraneous current through fear and filence . I can- i 4 not not but ...
... Fancy can hardly forbear to conjec- ture with what temper Milton furveyed the filent progrefs of his work , and marked his reputation ftealing its way in a kind of fubterraneous current through fear and filence . I can- i 4 not not but ...
Pagina 166
... fancy . The following foliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant , but tedious . The fong muft owe much to the voice , if it ever can delight . At laft the bro- thers enter , with too much tranquillity ; and when they have feared ...
... fancy . The following foliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant , but tedious . The fong muft owe much to the voice , if it ever can delight . At laft the bro- thers enter , with too much tranquillity ; and when they have feared ...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... Samuel Johnson Volledige weergave - 1779 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 146 - Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.
Pagina 203 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Pagina 120 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Pagina 199 - ... by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers, of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank 'verse, said an ingenious critick, seems to be verse only to the eye.
Pagina 17 - ... 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 203 - ... he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Pagina 136 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Pagina 123 - He hated monarchs in the state, and prelates in the church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected, that his predominant desire was to destroy, rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty, as repugnance to authority.
Pagina 153 - Milton must be confessed to have equalled every other poet. He has involved in his account of the Fall of Man the events...
Pagina 152 - Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish.