The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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... itself the vultures of the theatre . One of the criticks that attacked it was Martin Clifford , to whom Sprat addressed the Life of Cowley , with such veneration of his criti- cal powers as might naturally excite great ex- pectations of ...
... itself the vultures of the theatre . One of the criticks that attacked it was Martin Clifford , to whom Sprat addressed the Life of Cowley , with such veneration of his criti- cal powers as might naturally excite great ex- pectations of ...
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... itself . To suppose a tempest without " wind , is as bad as supposing a man to walk with- " out feet ; for if he supposes the tempeft to be " something diftinct from the wind , yet , as being " the effect of wind only , to come before ...
... itself . To suppose a tempest without " wind , is as bad as supposing a man to walk with- " out feet ; for if he supposes the tempeft to be " something diftinct from the wind , yet , as being " the effect of wind only , to come before ...
Pàgina 57
... itself in cursory conversation , than as it ope- rated on the more important parts of life . His placability and his friendship indeed were solid , vir- tues ; but courtesy and good - humour are often found with little real worth ...
... itself in cursory conversation , than as it ope- rated on the more important parts of life . His placability and his friendship indeed were solid , vir- tues ; but courtesy and good - humour are often found with little real worth ...
Pàgina 60
... itself with ideal wickedness , for the fake of spreading the contagion in society , I wish not to conceal or excuse the depravity . Such degradation of the dignity of genius , such abuse of fuperlative abilities , cannot be con ...
... itself with ideal wickedness , for the fake of spreading the contagion in society , I wish not to conceal or excuse the depravity . Such degradation of the dignity of genius , such abuse of fuperlative abilities , cannot be con ...
Pàgina 72
... itself ; we a through fragrance and flowers . Rymer taking a nearer , takes a rougher way ; is to be made through thorns and bram Truth , if we meet her , appears repulfi mien , and ungraceful by her habit . Dr ticism has the majesty of ...
... itself ; we a through fragrance and flowers . Rymer taking a nearer , takes a rougher way ; is to be made through thorns and bram Truth , if we meet her , appears repulfi mien , and ungraceful by her habit . Dr ticism has the majesty of ...
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Addiſon Æneid afterwards almoſt anſwer becauſe beſt buſineſs Cato cauſe cenfure character Charles Dryden compoſitions confidered converſation criticism defire deſign diſcover Dryden duke earl eaſy elegant Engliſh expreſſed faid fame fatire favour feems fimile fince firſt fome friends fuch fuffered fufficiently genius himſelf Hiſtory houſe inſtruction intereſt itſelf John Dryden judgement juſt king laſt leſs lord maſter moſt neceſſary neſs never obſerved occafion paffions paſs paſſages perhaps perſon play pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praiſe preſent preſerved propoſed publick publiſhed purpoſe racters raiſed reaſon repreſented rhyme ſame ſays ſcarcely ſcenes ſchool ſecond ſeems ſeen ſeldom Sempronius ſent ſentiments ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhip ſhort ſhould ſkill ſome ſomething ſometimes ſpeak ſtage ſtand ſtate Steele ſtill ſtory ſtudies ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuppoſed ſuſpected Syphax Tatler theſe thoſe thought tragedy tranflation Tyrannick Love uſe verſes verſion whoſe writing written
Passatges populars
Pàgina 111 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the 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, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
Pàgina 97 - 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 tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 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.
Pàgina 77 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Pàgina 60 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Pàgina 75 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Pàgina 69 - Shakespeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism; exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon by Demosthenes fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished or reformed; nor can the editors and admirers of...
Pàgina 124 - Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion, of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments.
Pàgina 118 - There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well as his audience ; and that these, like the harlots of other men, had his love, though not his approbation. He had sometimes faults of a less generous and splendid kind.
Pàgina 69 - Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems, nor a rude detection of faults, which perhaps the censor was not able to have committed; but a gay and vigorous dissertation, where delight is mingled with instruction, and where the author proves his right of judgment by his power of performance.
Pàgina 102 - As only buz to Heaven with evening wings ; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance ; Such are the blindfold blows of Ignorance : They know not beings,, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the same.