Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Band 21854 |
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... Earl of Halifax , 285 . More , Dr. Henry , 80 . Nabbes , Thomas , 1 . Newcastle , Margaret Duchess of , 2 . Oldham , John , 274 . Otway , Thomas , 270 . Pomfret , John , 315 . Pope , Walter , 82 . Prior , Matthew , 296 . Randolph ...
... Earl of Halifax , 285 . More , Dr. Henry , 80 . Nabbes , Thomas , 1 . Newcastle , Margaret Duchess of , 2 . Oldham , John , 274 . Otway , Thomas , 270 . Pomfret , John , 315 . Pope , Walter , 82 . Prior , Matthew , 296 . Randolph ...
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... Earl of Devonshire , and became the companion of Hobbes , who then attended his lordship : but Hobbes was never very good com- pany for divines ; and therefore it is no great wonder if Mayne and he did not agree well together , as Wood ...
... Earl of Devonshire , and became the companion of Hobbes , who then attended his lordship : but Hobbes was never very good com- pany for divines ; and therefore it is no great wonder if Mayne and he did not agree well together , as Wood ...
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... Earl of Newcastle's army , Davenant resoltely ventured to return to England , and volunteered his services undr that nobleman , who had been one of his patrons . The earl made hh lieutenant - general of his ordnance , a post for which ...
... Earl of Newcastle's army , Davenant resoltely ventured to return to England , and volunteered his services undr that nobleman , who had been one of his patrons . The earl made hh lieutenant - general of his ordnance , a post for which ...
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... Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; * but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : " a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . " His next ...
... Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; * but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : " a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . " His next ...
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... Earl of Anglesey , and which , being afterwards published , has been since inserted in its proper place . The same year were printed Paradise Regained and Samson Agon- istes , a tragedy written in imitation of the ancients , and never ...
... Earl of Anglesey , and which , being afterwards published , has been since inserted in its proper place . The same year were printed Paradise Regained and Samson Agon- istes , a tragedy written in imitation of the ancients , and never ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom and Achitophel admired Æneid afterwards ANDREW MARVELL appears beauties Ben Jonson better called censure character Charles Charles Dryden church College comedy court Cowley criticism Davenant death delight diction dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English Essay excellence fancy favour genius heroic honour Hudibras imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson kind king known labour lady language Latin learning lines lived London Lord Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never numbers observed occasion opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions performance perhaps pieces Pindaric play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface produced prose published queen reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme Richard Brome satire says seems sentiments sometimes Sprat supposed thing THOMAS D'URFEY thou thought tion tragedy tragi-comedy translation verses versification Virgil Westminster Westminster Abbey Westminster School words write written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 75 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Seite 21 - 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 134 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 100 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Seite 185 - 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 81 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Seite 29 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Seite 195 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Seite 19 - 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 3.
Seite 90 - 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.