Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 第 1 卷J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... grapher may be credited , fuch an ene- my to the king as not to wifh his dif- treffes lightened ; for he relates , " that " the king fent particularly to Waller , " to fecond his demand of fome fubfi- dies to pay off the army ; and Sir ...
... grapher may be credited , fuch an ene- my to the king as not to wifh his dif- treffes lightened ; for he relates , " that " the king fent particularly to Waller , " to fecond his demand of fome fubfi- dies to pay off the army ; and Sir ...
第 81 頁
... and then procured him ad- miffion into the company of the friends . of literature . Of this fact , Clarendon had a nearer knowledge than the bio- grapher , g grapher , and is therefore more to be credited . WAL LE R. 81.
... and then procured him ad- miffion into the company of the friends . of literature . Of this fact , Clarendon had a nearer knowledge than the bio- grapher , g grapher , and is therefore more to be credited . WAL LE R. 81.
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Samuel Johnson. grapher , and is therefore more to be credited . The account of Waller's parliamen- tary eloquence is feconded by Burnet , who , though he calls him " the delight " of the houfe , " adds , that " he was " only concerned ...
Samuel Johnson. grapher , and is therefore more to be credited . The account of Waller's parliamen- tary eloquence is feconded by Burnet , who , though he calls him " the delight " of the houfe , " adds , that " he was " only concerned ...
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... fake he profecuted Craw- ley with great bitternefs ; and the in- vective which he pronounced on that occafion was so popular , that twenty thousand copies are faid by his bio- grapher grapher to have been fold in one day . It 84 WALLE R.
... fake he profecuted Craw- ley with great bitternefs ; and the in- vective which he pronounced on that occafion was so popular , that twenty thousand copies are faid by his bio- grapher grapher to have been fold in one day . It 84 WALLE R.
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Samuel Johnson. grapher to have been fold in one day . It is confeffed that his faults ftill loft him many friends , at least many com- panions . His convivial power of pleasing is univerfally acknowledged ; but those who converfed with ...
Samuel Johnson. grapher to have been fold in one day . It is confeffed that his faults ftill loft him many friends , at least many com- panions . His convivial power of pleasing is univerfally acknowledged ; but those who converfed with ...
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第 38 頁 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
第 4 頁 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
第 59 頁 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
第 113 頁 - ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.
第 75 頁 - The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
第 32 頁 - He was now,' says the courtly Sprat, 'weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners. He was satiated with the arts of a court; which sort of life, though his virtue made it innocent to him, yet nothing could make it quiet.
第 104 頁 - The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex...
第 161 頁 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
第 145 頁 - tis imposture all; And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.