Life of DrydenClarendon Press, 1913 - 300 páginas |
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Página xxi
... accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , 1 In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in INTRODUCTION . xxi.
... accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , 1 In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in INTRODUCTION . xxi.
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Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in the volumes which contained the poems . The first four volumes were pub lished in 1779 , and the rest in 1780. The first edition of the Lives , which was ...
Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in the volumes which contained the poems . The first four volumes were pub lished in 1779 , and the rest in 1780. The first edition of the Lives , which was ...
Página xxiv
... original productive power . Another equally funda- mental question arises as to the prime essential of a writer ; and 1 See note , p . 261 . to this Johnson gives an answer as happily expressed as xxiv INTRODUCTION .
... original productive power . Another equally funda- mental question arises as to the prime essential of a writer ; and 1 See note , p . 261 . to this Johnson gives an answer as happily expressed as xxiv INTRODUCTION .
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... original , and transplant it by force into the version but what is given to the parts may be subducted from the whole , and the reader may be weary , though the critic may commend ' ( p . 97 ) . Though the allusion here is to transla ...
... original , and transplant it by force into the version but what is given to the parts may be subducted from the whole , and the reader may be weary , though the critic may commend ' ( p . 97 ) . Though the allusion here is to transla ...
Página xxxi
... original of his portraits . So far as a man can be really judged from his own writings Johnson's Lives will be a safe guide to truth . But when his narrative is to be fetched from ' casual mention and uncertain tradition , ' Johnson ...
... original of his portraits . So far as a man can be really judged from his own writings Johnson's Lives will be a safe guide to truth . But when his narrative is to be fetched from ' casual mention and uncertain tradition , ' Johnson ...
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Página 9 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Página 27 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Página xxi - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 25 - Hence it is, that, when the deed is done, when the work of darkness is perfect, then the world of darkness passes away like a pageantry in the clouds: the knocking at the gate is heard; and it makes known audibly that the reaction has commenced : the human has made its reflux upon the fiendish; the pulses of life are beginning to beat again; and the re-establishment of the goings-on of the world in which we live first makes us profoundly sensible of the awful parenthesis that had suspended them.
Página xxi - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Página xiv - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Página 69 - Every thing is excused by the play of images and the sprightliness of expression. Though all is easy, nothing is feeble ; though all seems careless, there is nothing harsh ; and though since his earlier works more than a century has passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete.
Página 19 - Dryden indulges his favourite pleasure of discrediting his predecessors ; and this Epilogue he has defended by a long postscript. He had promised a second dialogue, in which he should...
Página 8 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.