Life of DrydenClarendon Press, 1913 - 300 páginas |
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Página ix
... stands out as the concrete form of the English eighteenth century ; and it is indeed fortunate that we are enabled to study a figure so conspicuous as delineated by the masterly hand of Boswell in the greatest of biographies . For to ...
... stands out as the concrete form of the English eighteenth century ; and it is indeed fortunate that we are enabled to study a figure so conspicuous as delineated by the masterly hand of Boswell in the greatest of biographies . For to ...
Página x
... standing bareheaded in the market - place of Uttoxeter , ' exposed to the sneers of the standers - by and the inclemency of the weather . ' From his father Johnson doubtless obtained much information which was afterwards put to good ...
... standing bareheaded in the market - place of Uttoxeter , ' exposed to the sneers of the standers - by and the inclemency of the weather . ' From his father Johnson doubtless obtained much information which was afterwards put to good ...
Página xiv
... stand by the country . The resolution was not so absurd as it seems . Walpole had expended over fifty thousand pounds in ten years in the hire of mercenary pens , and Johnson could doubtless have had no inconsiderable share of this ...
... stand by the country . The resolution was not so absurd as it seems . Walpole had expended over fifty thousand pounds in ten years in the hire of mercenary pens , and Johnson could doubtless have had no inconsiderable share of this ...
Página xxii
... stand almost by themselves in the contemporar literature . Criticism before Johnson's time was an almost u known art . Dryden , it is true , had led the way , and had give in various introductions to plays , and self - laudatory ...
... stand almost by themselves in the contemporar literature . Criticism before Johnson's time was an almost u known art . Dryden , it is true , had led the way , and had give in various introductions to plays , and self - laudatory ...
Página xxix
... stands pre- eminent as the representative of the prose of his time , and his pre - eminence has dwarfed his contemporaries , with the single exception of Burke . In one sense it was not so very difficult for him to stand alone . The bad ...
... stands pre- eminent as the representative of the prose of his time , and his pre - eminence has dwarfed his contemporaries , with the single exception of Burke . In one sense it was not so very difficult for him to stand alone . The bad ...
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Passagens conhecidas
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.