The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 61790 |
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... Second . The tragedy of " The Brothers , " which was already in rehearsal , he immediately withdrew from the ftage . The managers refigned it with fome reluctance to the delicacy of the new clergyman . The Epilogue to " The Brothers ...
... Second . The tragedy of " The Brothers , " which was already in rehearsal , he immediately withdrew from the ftage . The managers refigned it with fome reluctance to the delicacy of the new clergyman . The Epilogue to " The Brothers ...
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... Second Dif- " courfe , " the counterpart of his " Eftimate , " without which it cannot be called " eftimate , " though in 1728 it was an- nounced as " foon to be publifhed , " never appeared ; and his old friends the Mufes were not ...
... Second Dif- " courfe , " the counterpart of his " Eftimate , " without which it cannot be called " eftimate , " though in 1728 it was an- nounced as " foon to be publifhed , " never appeared ; and his old friends the Mufes were not ...
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... second reading . But the labours of man are too frequently vain . Before he re- turned to much of what he had once approved , he died . Many of his books , which I have feen , are by thofe notes of approbation fo fwelled beyond their ...
... second reading . But the labours of man are too frequently vain . Before he re- turned to much of what he had once approved , he died . Many of his books , which I have feen , are by thofe notes of approbation fo fwelled beyond their ...
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... second stanza the Bard is well de- feribed ; but in the third we have the puerilities of obfolete mythology . When we are told that " Cadwallo hufh'd the ftormy main , " and that Modred made huge Plinlimmon bow his " cloud top'd head ...
... second stanza the Bard is well de- feribed ; but in the third we have the puerilities of obfolete mythology . When we are told that " Cadwallo hufh'd the ftormy main , " and that Modred made huge Plinlimmon bow his " cloud top'd head ...
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... Second , " elaborated by the fearches and deliberations of twenty years , and published with fuch anxiety as only vanity can dictate . The story of this publication is remarkable . The whole work was printed twice over , a great part of ...
... Second , " elaborated by the fearches and deliberations of twenty years , and published with fuch anxiety as only vanity can dictate . The story of this publication is remarkable . The whole work was printed twice over , a great part of ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 82 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity...
Página 129 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Página 130 - The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Página 130 - Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
Página 118 - ... merely as a man of letters; and though without birth, or fortune, or station, his desire was to be looked upon as a private independent gentleman, who read for his amusement.
Página 99 - ... being such as he was not inclined to give precipitately, he carried the work to Pope, who, having looked into it, advised him not to make a niggardly offer ; for " this was no every-day writer.
Página 162 - mild and affable in private life, of gentle manners, and very engaging in conversation. He was an excellent scholar, and an easy natural poet. His peculiar excellence was the dressing up an old thought in a new, neat, and trim manner. He was contented to scamper round the foot of Parnassus on his little Welsh poney, which seems never to have tired.
Página 141 - On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountain of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed, as from a copious spring.
Página 124 - An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art: an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
Página 132 - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.