Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and IllustrationsE. Newbery, 1797 - 239 Seiten |
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... certainly in- fpired him with a more than ordinary paffion , and be- caufe fhe was herfelf fo delighted with the charms of A 4 his his converfation as to overlook his external difadvan tages , LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . vii.
... certainly in- fpired him with a more than ordinary paffion , and be- caufe fhe was herfelf fo delighted with the charms of A 4 his his converfation as to overlook his external difadvan tages , LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . vii.
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... paffion for this young lord , whom he has preferred to the rest of mankind , as others have had for her ; and may his love before the year go about , make her taste of the first curfe impofed upon womankind , the pains of becoming a ...
... paffion for this young lord , whom he has preferred to the rest of mankind , as others have had for her ; and may his love before the year go about , make her taste of the first curfe impofed upon womankind , the pains of becoming a ...
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... paffion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguifh arifing from the consciousness of tranfgreffion , and the horrors attending the fenfe of the divine difpleasure , are very juftly described , and forci- divine 32 LIVES OF THE ...
... paffion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguifh arifing from the consciousness of tranfgreffion , and the horrors attending the fenfe of the divine difpleasure , are very juftly described , and forci- divine 32 LIVES OF THE ...
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... paffion blows , " With pride it mounts , or with revenge it glows . " Dryden's was not one of the gentle bofoms : Love as it fubfifts in itself , with no tendency but to the per- fon loved , and withing only for correfpondent kind- nefs ...
... paffion blows , " With pride it mounts , or with revenge it glows . " Dryden's was not one of the gentle bofoms : Love as it fubfifts in itself , with no tendency but to the per- fon loved , and withing only for correfpondent kind- nefs ...
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... paffion . " Dr. Johnson confiders him as " a writer that fome- times glimmers , but rarely fhines , feebly laborious , and at best but pretty . His fongs are upon common topicks ; he hopes , and grieves , and repents , and de- fpairs ...
... paffion . " Dr. Johnson confiders him as " a writer that fome- times glimmers , but rarely fhines , feebly laborious , and at best but pretty . His fongs are upon common topicks ; he hopes , and grieves , and repents , and de- fpairs ...
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Seite 146 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
Seite 49 - Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious.
Seite 31 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Seite 239 - 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 151 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Seite 49 - 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. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Seite 33 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Seite 238 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Seite 148 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...
Seite xii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.