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... my opinion sincerely : let them show where they think me wrong . " He had hardly begun to reap the laurels gained by this performance when death deprived him of · Mr. Thrale in whose house he had enjoyed the 18 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
... my opinion sincerely : let them show where they think me wrong . " He had hardly begun to reap the laurels gained by this performance when death deprived him of · Mr. Thrale in whose house he had enjoyed the 18 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
Side 32
... on " The Prince's Escape at St. Andero , " a piece in which his versification was such as it appears in his last performances . His next poem is supposed to be " The Address to the Queen , " written in his twentieth year 32 COWLEY .
... on " The Prince's Escape at St. Andero , " a piece in which his versification was such as it appears in his last performances . His next poem is supposed to be " The Address to the Queen , " written in his twentieth year 32 COWLEY .
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... performance ; but while he was obliged to divide his time between his private studies and affairs of state , his poetical labour must have been often interrupted . Being driven from all public stations , he was confessedly and visibly ...
... performance ; but while he was obliged to divide his time between his private studies and affairs of state , his poetical labour must have been often interrupted . Being driven from all public stations , he was confessedly and visibly ...
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... performances Dr. Johnson places the " Masque of Comus as the first in merit . Our limits will not permit us to insert his criticisms on the whole of the productions of the poet before us , We shall therefore come immediately to what ...
... performances Dr. Johnson places the " Masque of Comus as the first in merit . Our limits will not permit us to insert his criticisms on the whole of the productions of the poet before us , We shall therefore come immediately to what ...
Side 69
... performances there has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Hastings ; and at the University he does not appear to have been eager of poetical distinction . He obtained , what- ever was the reason , no fellowship in the college ...
... performances there has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Hastings ; and at the University he does not appear to have been eager of poetical distinction . He obtained , what- ever was the reason , no fellowship in the college ...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ... Samuel Johnson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1805 |
The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ... Samuel Johnson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1805 |
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Side 291 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Side 114 - 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.
Side 63 - 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.
Side 252 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Side 78 - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
Side 309 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Side 78 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.
Side 79 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Side 112 - Cato' it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion :" here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
Side 132 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.