Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Milton. ButlerJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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Pagina 102
... imagination . Sapiens domina- bitur aftris . The author that thinks kimfelf weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhaufted . But while this notion has poffeffion of the head , it pro ...
... imagination . Sapiens domina- bitur aftris . The author that thinks kimfelf weather - bound will find , with a little help from hellebore , that he is only idle or exhaufted . But while this notion has poffeffion of the head , it pro ...
Pagina 104
... 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 . diminution. Milton appears to fufpect ...
... 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 . diminution. Milton appears to fufpect ...
Pagina 163
Samuel Johnson. lancholy in his mirth . They are two noble efforts of imagination . The greatest of his juvenile per- formances is the Mask of Comus ; in which may very plainly be difcovered the dawn or twilight of Paradife Loft . Milton ...
Samuel Johnson. lancholy in his mirth . They are two noble efforts of imagination . The greatest of his juvenile per- formances is the Mask of Comus ; in which may very plainly be difcovered the dawn or twilight of Paradife Loft . Milton ...
Pagina 164
... imagination ; but , so far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which can hard- ly be faid of the conduct of the two brothers ; who , when their fifter finks with fatigue in a pathlefs wilderness , wander both ...
... imagination ; but , so far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which can hard- ly be faid of the conduct of the two brothers ; who , when their fifter finks with fatigue in a pathlefs wilderness , wander both ...
Pagina 170
... imagination to the help of reafon . Epick poetry amdertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleafing precepts , and therefore relates fome great event in the most affecting manner . History muft fupply the writer with the ...
... imagination to the help of reafon . Epick poetry amdertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleafing precepts , and therefore relates fome great event in the most affecting manner . History muft fupply the writer with the ...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... Samuel Johnson Volledige weergave - 1779 |
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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.