The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 61790 |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 17
Página 4
... should be qualified to stand for a fellowship at All Souls . In a few months the warden of New College died . He then re- moved to Corpus College . The prefident of this fociety , from regard alfo for his father , in- vited him thither ...
... should be qualified to stand for a fellowship at All Souls . In a few months the warden of New College died . He then re- moved to Corpus College . The prefident of this fociety , from regard alfo for his father , in- vited him thither ...
Página 8
... should be told , that , every time I called upon Johnson during the time I was employed in collecting materials for this life and putting it together , he never fuffered me to depart without fome fuch farewell as this : " Don't forget ...
... should be told , that , every time I called upon Johnson during the time I was employed in collecting materials for this life and putting it together , he never fuffered me to depart without fome fuch farewell as this : " Don't forget ...
Página 10
... Should juftice call upon you to cenfure this poem , it ought at least to be remembered that he did not infert it in his works ; and that in the letter to Curll , as we have feen , he advifes its omiffion . The bookfellers , in the late ...
... Should juftice call upon you to cenfure this poem , it ought at least to be remembered that he did not infert it in his works ; and that in the letter to Curll , as we have feen , he advifes its omiffion . The bookfellers , in the late ...
Página 13
... should not have written it . The poem itself is not without a glance towards politicks , notwithstanding the subject . The cry that the church was in danger , had not yet fubfided . The Laft Day , " written by a layman , was much ...
... should not have written it . The poem itself is not without a glance towards politicks , notwithstanding the subject . The cry that the church was in danger , had not yet fubfided . The Laft Day , " written by a layman , was much ...
Página 23
... should not have referred in vain . The first Satire laments that " Guilt's chief foe in Addifon is " fled . " The fecond , addreffing himself , afks , Is thy ambition sweating for a rhyme , Thou unambitious fool , at this late time ? A ...
... should not have referred in vain . The first Satire laments that " Guilt's chief foe in Addifon is " fled . " The fecond , addreffing himself , afks , Is thy ambition sweating for a rhyme , Thou unambitious fool , at this late time ? A ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Addifon addreffed affiftant afterwards alfo almoſt appears blank verfe bookfeller Cambridge cenfure character Chriftian Clare Hall College compofition confequence confiderable converfation death dedication defire died diſcover Drury Lane Duke of Wharton Edward Young Effay Engliſh Epiftle expreffion faid fame father fatire favour fays fchool fecond feems feen fent feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fion firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftanza ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fufficient fupport furely Gray himſelf hiſtory honour houſe juft Lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs Lord Lorenzo Lyttelton mafter Mallet moft moſt muſt nefs Night Thoughts numbers obferve occafion paffage paffed Pembroke Hall perfons phyſician pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praife praiſe prefent Prince of Wales profe publick publiſhed reafon refided Refignation rhyme ſeems ſhort ſhould Souls College ſtudy thefe theſe thofe tion Tunbridge Univerfal vifit Walpole Wharton Whitehead whofe Wincheſter write Young
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.