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Página 80
Surely no man couid have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had be
nor known its author : Of the two pieces , L ' Allegro and Il Ponseroso , I believe
opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure .
Surely no man couid have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had be
nor known its author : Of the two pieces , L ' Allegro and Il Ponseroso , I believe
opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure .
Página 99
The great source of pleasure is variety . Uniformity must tire at last , though it be
uniformity of excellence . We love to expect ; and , when expectation is disapp -
inted or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the ...
The great source of pleasure is variety . Uniformity must tire at last , though it be
uniformity of excellence . We love to expect ; and , when expectation is disapp -
inted or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the ...
Página 238
His meaning , that pity and terror are to be moved , is , that they are to be “ moved
as the mcans conducing to the ends of tragedy , which are pleasure and
instruction . “ And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the
poet ...
His meaning , that pity and terror are to be moved , is , that they are to be “ moved
as the mcans conducing to the ends of tragedy , which are pleasure and
instruction . “ And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the
poet ...
Página 595
As our good and tender hearted parents did not live to receive any « material
testimonies of that highest human gratitude I owed them ( ihan “ which nothing
could have given me equal pleasure ) , the only return I can make them now is by
...
As our good and tender hearted parents did not live to receive any « material
testimonies of that highest human gratitude I owed them ( ihan “ which nothing
could have given me equal pleasure ) , the only return I can make them now is by
...
Página 679
I have read your religious treatise with infinite pleasure and satisfaco « tion . The
style is fine and clear , the arguments close , cogent , and irre« sistible . May the
King of kings , whose glorious cause you have so well “ defended , reward your ...
I have read your religious treatise with infinite pleasure and satisfaco « tion . The
style is fine and clear , the arguments close , cogent , and irre« sistible . May the
King of kings , whose glorious cause you have so well “ defended , reward your ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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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