Life of DrydenClarendon Press, 1913 - 300 páginas |
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Página xiv
... reader of Rasselas there is a vast significance in the fact that Johnson , who was willing to talk of anything but of his prospects in another world , broke down when he tried to narrate the sufferings of this time . When we hear of his ...
... reader of Rasselas there is a vast significance in the fact that Johnson , who was willing to talk of anything but of his prospects in another world , broke down when he tried to narrate the sufferings of this time . When we hear of his ...
Página xxiv
... reader , far from wondering how he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of ingenuity they were ever found . " This vicious style had been left behind for ever by the practice of Dryden and Pope , and here was added ...
... reader , far from wondering how he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of ingenuity they were ever found . " This vicious style had been left behind for ever by the practice of Dryden and Pope , and here was added ...
Página xxv
... reader , it must be remembered that ' That which is easy at one time was difficult at another ' ( p . 61 ) , and that in Johnson's day men had not yet been long alive to the necessity of a qualification which seems to us now so ...
... reader , it must be remembered that ' That which is easy at one time was difficult at another ' ( p . 61 ) , and that in Johnson's day men had not yet been long alive to the necessity of a qualification which seems to us now so ...
Página xxvi
... reader throws away . He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness , and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow ...
... reader throws away . He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness , and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow ...
Página xxx
... reader's mind ; and by this rule Johnson will not be found to fail . Though many sentences are fatiguingly long , very few through- out this volume will be found to be confused . His prose has a certain stately march , and bears his reader ...
... reader's mind ; and by this rule Johnson will not be found to fail . Though many sentences are fatiguingly long , very few through- out this volume will be found to be confused . His prose has a certain stately march , and bears his reader ...
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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.