The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 Seiten |
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... praise , and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight in all the chan- ges of human manners , he contented himself with à deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay ...
... praise , and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight in all the chan- ges of human manners , he contented himself with à deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay ...
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... praise by inelegance of language . " The acute Critic produces the passage alluded to , of which , however , it may be sufficient to say , that it consists of sixteen lines , and that the word does occurs no less than six times in the ...
... praise by inelegance of language . " The acute Critic produces the passage alluded to , of which , however , it may be sufficient to say , that it consists of sixteen lines , and that the word does occurs no less than six times in the ...
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... praises as effusions of reverence ; they could consider them but as the labour of invention , and the tribute of dependance . The Congratulation was considered as inferior , in poetical merit , to the Panegyric ; and it is reported that ...
... praises as effusions of reverence ; they could consider them but as the labour of invention , and the tribute of dependance . The Congratulation was considered as inferior , in poetical merit , to the Panegyric ; and it is reported that ...
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... , he has given but very few examples . The critical decision has given the praise of ' Sir John Davies . The title of the poem here alluded to is " Nosce teipsum . 33 strength to Denham , and of sweetness to Waller . 42 WALLER .
... , he has given but very few examples . The critical decision has given the praise of ' Sir John Davies . The title of the poem here alluded to is " Nosce teipsum . 33 strength to Denham , and of sweetness to Waller . 42 WALLER .
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... Praise had given him confidence ; and finding the world satisfied , he satisfied himself . " His rhymes are , sometimes , weak words . So is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book ...
... Praise had given him confidence ; and finding the world satisfied , he satisfied himself . " His rhymes are , sometimes , weak words . So is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.