The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2A. V. Blake, 1846 |
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... considered only as a slender supplement . So differendy are things seen ! and so different- | party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass ly are they shown ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly ...
... considered only as a slender supplement . So differendy are things seen ! and so different- | party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass ly are they shown ! but actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly ...
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... considered ; a poem which the author designed to have ex- tended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no scruple of declaring , because the Eneid had that number ; but he had leisure or perseve- rance only to write the third part ...
... considered ; a poem which the author designed to have ex- tended to twelve books , merely , as he makes no scruple of declaring , because the Eneid had that number ; but he had leisure or perseve- rance only to write the third part ...
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... considered as of un- rivalled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spen- ser , Shakspeare , and ...
... considered as of un- rivalled excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spen- ser , Shakspeare , and ...
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... considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has there- fore deviated into that measure when he sup- poses the voice had heard of the Supreme Being . The author of the Davideis is commended by Dryden for ...
... considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has there- fore deviated into that measure when he sup- poses the voice had heard of the Supreme Being . The author of the Davideis is commended by Dryden for ...
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... considered as any one's rival . If Christina , as is said , commended the Defence of the People , her purpose must be to torment Salmasius , who was then at court ; for neither her civil station , nor her natural character , could ...
... considered as any one's rival . If Christina , as is said , commended the Defence of the People , her purpose must be to torment Salmasius , who was then at court ; for neither her civil station , nor her natural character , could ...
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Seite 26 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Seite 10 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.
Seite 244 - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. 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...
Seite 437 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
Seite 35 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Seite 10 - To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.
Seite 38 - Milton's republicanism was, I am afraid, founded in an envious hatred of greatness, and a sullen desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the State, and prelates in the Church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty as repugnance to authority.
Seite 41 - The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth; rebellion against the Supreme King raised by the highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of their host and the punishment of their crime; the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures; their original happiness and innocence, their forfeiture...
Seite 9 - Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account. The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to...
Seite 270 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.