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What firminess they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be
known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it
, even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end ...
What firminess they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be
known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it
, even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end ...
Página 108
... though at that time great expectations were formed by some , of its
establishment and its effects . Such a society might , perhaps , without much
difficulty , be collected ; but that it , would produce what is expected from it may be
doubted .
... though at that time great expectations were formed by some , of its
establishment and its effects . Such a society might , perhaps , without much
difficulty , be collected ; but that it , would produce what is expected from it may be
doubted .
Página 446
... but a refusal was resented by him as an affront , or complained of as an injury ;
nor did he readily reconcile himself to those who either denied to lend , or gave
him afterwards any intimation that they expected to be repaid . He was ...
... but a refusal was resented by him as an affront , or complained of as an injury ;
nor did he readily reconcile himself to those who either denied to lend , or gave
him afterwards any intimation that they expected to be repaid . He was ...
Página 532
Lintot , I believe , did nothing ; and Curll did what was expected . That to make
them publick was the only purpose may be rea " sonably supposed , because the
numbers offered to sale by the private niessengers , shewed that nope of gain ...
Lintot , I believe , did nothing ; and Curll did what was expected . That to make
them publick was the only purpose may be rea " sonably supposed , because the
numbers offered to sale by the private niessengers , shewed that nope of gain ...
Página 681
... maker , but then known by the style of Doctor . Something uncommon was
probably expected , and something uncommon was at last done ; for to the
Doctor's edition is appended , what the world had hardly seen before , a list of
errors in 19 ...
... maker , but then known by the style of Doctor . Something uncommon was
probably expected , and something uncommon was at last done ; for to the
Doctor's edition is appended , what the world had hardly seen before , a list of
errors in 19 ...
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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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