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Página 59
He was rewarded with a thousand pounds , and his book was much read ; for
paradox , recommended by spiritand elegance , easily gains attention ; and he
who told every man that he was equal to his King , could hardly want an
audience .
He was rewarded with a thousand pounds , and his book was much read ; for
paradox , recommended by spiritand elegance , easily gains attention ; and he
who told every man that he was equal to his King , could hardly want an
audience .
Página 61
To your " virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way , except
some wlió , " without equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the
distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that in the ...
To your " virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way , except
some wlió , " without equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the
distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that in the ...
Página 127
In the poem on the war with Spain are some passages at least equal to the best
parts of the panegyrick : and , in the conclusion , the poet ventures yet a higher
flight of flattery , by recommending royalty to Cromwell and the dation . Cromwell
...
In the poem on the war with Spain are some passages at least equal to the best
parts of the panegyrick : and , in the conclusion , the poet ventures yet a higher
flight of flattery , by recommending royalty to Cromwell and the dation . Cromwell
...
Página 264
He implores his patron's excuse of his verses , both as falling “ , so infinitely
below the “ full and sublime genius of that execllent poet who made this way of
writé « ing free of our nation , ” and being " so little equal and proportioned to the
...
He implores his patron's excuse of his verses , both as falling “ , so infinitely
below the “ full and sublime genius of that execllent poet who made this way of
writé « ing free of our nation , ” and being " so little equal and proportioned to the
...
Página 395
He produced another piece of the same kind at the appearance of Cato , with
equal skill but , nct equal happiness . When the ministers of queen Anne were
negotiating with France , Ticke ! published The Prospect of Peace , a poem , of
which ...
He produced another piece of the same kind at the appearance of Cato , with
equal skill but , nct equal happiness . When the ministers of queen Anne were
negotiating with France , Ticke ! published The Prospect of Peace , a poem , of
which ...
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Addison afterwards appears attention believe called character common considered continued conversation criticism death delight desire died discovered Dryden easily effect elegance English equal excellence expected expression favour formed friends gave genius give given hand honour hope imagination Italy kind King knowledge known Lady language learning least less letter lines lived Lord manner means mentioned Milton mind nature never night numbers observed obtained occasion once opinion original passed performance perhaps person play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise present probably produced published reader reason received remarks reputation Savage says seems sent shew sometimes soon success sufficient supposed tell thing thought tion told tragedy translation true verses virtue whole write written wrote Young
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Página 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Página 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Página 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 218 - 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 tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Página 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Página 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Página 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 36 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Lives Volumen 1 de The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | A. Miller, 1800 |
| Procedencia del original | la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 23 Nov 2006 |
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