The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poetsW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... genius , and for their maintenance of these , the main objects of his own life and labour , he praised many an author whom other more courtly critics have thought it not cruelty to ridicule . He sums up his eulogium on a poet with the ...
... genius , and for their maintenance of these , the main objects of his own life and labour , he praised many an author whom other more courtly critics have thought it not cruelty to ridicule . He sums up his eulogium on a poet with the ...
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... genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular VOL . VII . 13 1 direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of ✓COWLEY PAGE.
... genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular VOL . VII . 13 1 direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of ✓COWLEY PAGE.
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... genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to forget , that , if his activity was virtue , his re- treat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to ...
... genius , nor our pity for a sufferer , dispose us to forget , that , if his activity was virtue , his re- treat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to ...
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... genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the culti- vation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to con- test the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
... genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the culti- vation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to con- test the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
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... genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know- ledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun and happily concluded ...
... genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know- ledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun and happily concluded ...
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Seite 135 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harrassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions.
Seite 120 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Seite 16 - 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.
Seite 473 - 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.
Seite 72 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 75 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boardingschool.
Seite 451 - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Seite 326 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Seite 108 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his 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 319 - This rule is still stronger with regard to arts not liberal, or confined to few, and therefore far removed from common knowledge; and of this kind, certainly, is technical navigation. Yet Dryden was of opinion that a seafight ought to be described in the nautical language; "and certainly," says he, "as those who in a logical dispute keep in general terms would hide a fallacy, so those who do it in any poetical description would veil their ignorance.