Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Band 21854 |
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... obtained complete enlargement , and has nothing to regret but the wreck of his fortune . In this dilemma , le adopted a measure which , like a great part of his conduct throughout life , shows him to have been a man of an undaunted ...
... obtained complete enlargement , and has nothing to regret but the wreck of his fortune . In this dilemma , le adopted a measure which , like a great part of his conduct throughout life , shows him to have been a man of an undaunted ...
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... obtained permission to live in quiet , he supported himself so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the acces- sion of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but his constitution being too weak for business , he ...
... obtained permission to live in quiet , he supported himself so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the acces- sion of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but his constitution being too weak for business , he ...
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... obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
... obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
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... obtaining more fitness for his task ; and that he goes on , " not taking thought of being late , so it gives advantage to be more fit . " When he left the University , he returned to his father , then residing at Horton , in ...
... obtaining more fitness for his task ; and that he goes on , " not taking thought of being late , so it gives advantage to be more fit . " When he left the University , he returned to his father , then residing at Horton , in ...
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... obtained his father's consent and Sir Henry Wotton's directions , with the celebrated precept of prudence , I pensieri stretti , ed il viso sciolto , " thoughts close , and looks loose . " In 1638 he left England , and went first to ...
... obtained his father's consent and Sir Henry Wotton's directions , with the celebrated precept of prudence , I pensieri stretti , ed il viso sciolto , " thoughts close , and looks loose . " In 1638 he left England , and went first to ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom and Achitophel admired afterwards ANDREW MARVELL appears beauties Ben Jonson better called censure character Charles Charles Dryden church College comedy court Cowley criticism Davenant death delight diction died dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English Essay excellence fancy father favour genius heroic honour Hudibras imitation John Dryden Johnson kind king labour lady language Latin learning lines lived London Lord Lord Roscommon Matthew Prior Milton mind nature never numbers observed occasion opinion Otway Oxford Paradise Lost 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 thou thought tion Tom D'Urfey tragedy tragi-comedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Westminster Westminster Abbey Westminster School words write written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 85 - 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 141 - 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 110 - 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 195 - 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 89 - 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 34 - 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 205 - 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 100 - 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.