Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1권J. Murray, 1854 - 395페이지 |
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... write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as " little Lives and little Prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was the first attempt to form a complete body of ...
... write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as " little Lives and little Prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was the first attempt to form a complete body of ...
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... writes printed , put neatly together , to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig , he will not like them ; but is any king a Whig ? " Other and ampler notices of ...
... writes printed , put neatly together , to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig , he will not like them ; but is any king a Whig ? " Other and ampler notices of ...
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... writes to Boswell , August 21 , 1780 , " thinking to write the ' Lives , ' and a great part of the time only think- ing . Several of them , however , are done , and I still think to do the rest . " This still thinking and not performing ...
... writes to Boswell , August 21 , 1780 , " thinking to write the ' Lives , ' and a great part of the time only think- ing . Several of them , however , are done , and I still think to do the rest . " This still thinking and not performing ...
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... writing that which is most eagerly read , and most easily applied to the purposes of life . " This was said long ... write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the full vigour of his faculties , yet he ...
... writing that which is most eagerly read , and most easily applied to the purposes of life . " This was said long ... write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the full vigour of his faculties , yet he ...
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... writes the life of another is either his friend or his enemy , and wishes either to exalt his praise or aggravate ... writing a life a man's pecu- liarities should be mentioned , because they mark his character , Johnson observed in ...
... writes the life of another is either his friend or his enemy , and wishes either to exalt his praise or aggravate ... writing a life a man's pecu- liarities should be mentioned , because they mark his character , Johnson observed in ...
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341 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
364 페이지 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
141 페이지 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
21 페이지 - To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables n.
162 페이지 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
74 페이지 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
380 페이지 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
364 페이지 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, '• This universal frame began : ' When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, ••;.-'• The timeful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead.
76 페이지 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, " He did not steal, but emulate ! " And, when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not their cloaths, did wear.
xiv 페이지 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.