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cient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied , from 1623 to 1664 , that is , forty - one years , with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare , which probably did not together make one thousand copies .
cient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied , from 1623 to 1664 , that is , forty - one years , with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare , which probably did not together make one thousand copies .
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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 144 - 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 201 - 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 118 - 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 197 - ... 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 15 - ... 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 201 - ... 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 134 - 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 121 - 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 151 - Milton must be confessed to have equalled every other poet. He has involved in his account of the Fall of Man the events...
Pagina 150 - Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volume 2 Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Uitgever | J. Nichols, 1779 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 26 sep 2006 |
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