The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 páginas |
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... revise it ! Part of this book of Fables is the first Iliad in English , intended as a specimen of a version of the whole . Consider- ing into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice that this project went no further ...
... revise it ! Part of this book of Fables is the first Iliad in English , intended as a specimen of a version of the whole . Consider- ing into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice that this project went no further ...
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... revised , if he did not write it . Of those portraits , which may be supposed to be sometimes embellished , and sometimes aggravated , the originals are now partly known , and partly forgotten . But to say that they united the plans of ...
... revised , if he did not write it . Of those portraits , which may be supposed to be sometimes embellished , and sometimes aggravated , the originals are now partly known , and partly forgotten . But to say that they united the plans of ...
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... revision , he afterwards published . He must have been at this time , if he had no help , a consider- able proficient in the Latin tongue . By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of ...
... revision , he afterwards published . He must have been at this time , if he had no help , a consider- able proficient in the Latin tongue . By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of ...
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... revision ; and when Pope , perhaps proud of such confidence , was sufficiently bold in his criticisms , and liberal in his alter- ations , the old scribbler was angry to see his pages defaced , and felt more pain from the detection than ...
... revision ; and when Pope , perhaps proud of such confidence , was sufficiently bold in his criticisms , and liberal in his alter- ations , the old scribbler was angry to see his pages defaced , and felt more pain from the detection than ...
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... revised the Iliad , and freed it from some of its imperfections ; and the Essay on Criticism received many improvements after its first appearance . It will seldom be found that he altered without adding clearness , elegance , or vigour ...
... revised the Iliad , and freed it from some of its imperfections ; and the Essay on Criticism received many improvements after its first appearance . It will seldom be found that he altered without adding clearness , elegance , or vigour ...
Términos y frases comunes
Addison afterwards appears Assistant-Master Bolingbroke Cambridge Cato censure character Charles Dryden Clifton College College considered criticism Crown 8vo death delight diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Edition elegance ELEMENTARY English Epistle Essay Eton College excellence Extra fcap favour friends genius Globe 8vo Greek HISTORY Homer honour hundred Iliad Illustrations John Dryden Johnson judgement kind King known labour language late Fellow Latin learning Letters lines literature lived Lord Lord Halifax Master Milton mind nature never opinion Owens College Oxford Paradise Lost passions perhaps play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise Preface Professor prose publick published R. C. JEBB reader reason remarks revised rhyme satire says School seems sentiments Shakspeare shew shewn sometimes style supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought tion told tragedy translation TREATISE Trinity College University verses virtue Whig words write written wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 417 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 389 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 97 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries ; but what image of tenderness...
Página 19 - THE SEVEN KINGS OF ROME. An Easy Narrative, abridged from the First Book of Livy by the omission of Difficult Passages; being a First Latin Reading Book, with Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary.
Página 200 - 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.
Página 25 - Prelector of St. John's College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS. For the Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools.
Página 306 - To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled '? because she longs to launch ? an act which was never hindered by a bridle : and whither will she launch ? into a nobler strain.
Página 42 - SOUND : a Series of Simple, Entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of Sound, for the Use of Students of every age.
Página 24 - HEMMING— AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS, for the Use of Colleges and Schools. By GW HEMMING, MA, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Second Edition, with Corrections and Additions. 8vo.
Página 417 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.