Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Band 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 Seiten |
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... nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occasionally himself the " good hater he liked he was not favourably disposed towards Lyttelton- and his early dislike coloured the whole of his biography ; for notwithstanding his many virtues and ...
... nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occasionally himself the " good hater he liked he was not favourably disposed towards Lyttelton- and his early dislike coloured the whole of his biography ; for notwithstanding his many virtues and ...
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... nature , guided by a small quantity of judgment , will go far in finding the mistakes and inelegancies of writers . " It is easy to see in what Johnson thought good poetry to 6 consist . He appears to have admired Dryden as.
... nature , guided by a small quantity of judgment , will go far in finding the mistakes and inelegancies of writers . " It is easy to see in what Johnson thought good poetry to 6 consist . He appears to have admired Dryden as.
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... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation the marvel vanishes : " He was , " he says , " such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . " He ...
... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation the marvel vanishes : " He was , " he says , " such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . " He ...
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... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seven- teenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets , of whom ...
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seven- teenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets , of whom ...
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... nature for life , neither painted the forms of matter , nor repre- sented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
... nature for life , neither painted the forms of matter , nor repre- sented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
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Seite 341 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 364 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Seite 141 - 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.
Seite 21 - To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables n.
Seite 162 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 74 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Seite 380 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Seite 364 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, '• This universal frame began : ' When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, ••;.-'• The timeful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead.
Seite 76 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, " He did not steal, but emulate ! " And, when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not their cloaths, did wear.
Seite xiv - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.