The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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Pagina 29
... images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy ...
... images may entertain for a moment ; but , being unnatural , it soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy ...
Pagina 36
Samuel Johnson. dignify . The miracle of creation , however it may teem with images , is best described with little diffusion of language : He spake the word , and they were made . We are told that Saul was troubled with an evil spirit ...
Samuel Johnson. dignify . The miracle of creation , however it may teem with images , is best described with little diffusion of language : He spake the word , and they were made . We are told that Saul was troubled with an evil spirit ...
Pagina 37
... images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the sight might have suggested . When Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum ...
... images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the sight might have suggested . When Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum ...
Pagina 40
... images , and Cowley sentiments . It happens , however , that Tasso's description affords some reason for Rymer's censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura ...
... images , and Cowley sentiments . It happens , however , that Tasso's description affords some reason for Rymer's censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura ...
Pagina 42
... images , and that light allusion to sacred things , by which readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having ...
... images , and that light allusion to sacred things , by which readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age , when devotion , perhaps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancients appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions confessed considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives judgment Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes supposed Syphax thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote