The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 頁 |
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... tragedy of Irene . The respectable character of his parents and his own merit had secured him a kind reception in the best families at Litchfield , and he was particularly distinguished by Mr. Walmsley , Register of the ecclesiastical ...
... tragedy of Irene . The respectable character of his parents and his own merit had secured him a kind reception in the best families at Litchfield , and he was particularly distinguished by Mr. Walmsley , Register of the ecclesiastical ...
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... tragedy was refused by the managers of that day ; and for some years the Gentleman's Magazine seems to have been his principal resource for employment and support . His connection with Cave the proprietor of it became very close ; he ...
... tragedy was refused by the managers of that day ; and for some years the Gentleman's Magazine seems to have been his principal resource for employment and support . His connection with Cave the proprietor of it became very close ; he ...
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... and whom he continued to lament as long as he lived . " The Dictionary did not occupy his whole time : for , while he was pushing it forward , he fitted his Tragedy for the stage ; wrote the lives of several 10 SOME ACCOUNT ON THE LIFE.
... and whom he continued to lament as long as he lived . " The Dictionary did not occupy his whole time : for , while he was pushing it forward , he fitted his Tragedy for the stage ; wrote the lives of several 10 SOME ACCOUNT ON THE LIFE.
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Samuel Johnson. Tragedy for the stage ; wrote the lives of several eminent men for the Gentleman's Magazine ; pub- lished an Imitation of the 10th Satire of Juvenal , intitled " The Vanity of Human Wishes ; " and began and finished " The ...
Samuel Johnson. Tragedy for the stage ; wrote the lives of several eminent men for the Gentleman's Magazine ; pub- lished an Imitation of the 10th Satire of Juvenal , intitled " The Vanity of Human Wishes ; " and began and finished " The ...
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... tragedy . " It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic fervour , that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was the ...
... tragedy . " It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic fervour , that he brought to his poetic labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was the ...
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第 291 頁 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
第 114 頁 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
第 63 頁 - But of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them.
第 252 頁 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
第 78 頁 - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
第 309 頁 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
第 78 頁 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.
第 79 頁 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
第 112 頁 - Cato' it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion :" here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
第 132 頁 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.