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Pàgina 1
... known than his name and rank might give reason to expect . He was born about 1667 , the fon of Bernard Green- ville , who was entrusted by Monk with the most private tranfactions of the Re- ftoration , and the grandfon of Sir Bevil ...
... known than his name and rank might give reason to expect . He was born about 1667 , the fon of Bernard Green- ville , who was entrusted by Monk with the most private tranfactions of the Re- ftoration , and the grandfon of Sir Bevil ...
Pàgina 38
samuel johnson. might exprefs a resemblance by which their pic- tures might be known , but never reach that perfection of beauty , which nothing but an omnipotent hand could form . My lord Rochefter , in his imitation of one of Horace's ...
samuel johnson. might exprefs a resemblance by which their pic- tures might be known , but never reach that perfection of beauty , which nothing but an omnipotent hand could form . My lord Rochefter , in his imitation of one of Horace's ...
Pàgina 5
... George he fung The Royal Progrejs ; which being inferted in the Spectator is well known , and of which it is juft to fay that it is neither high nor low . A 3 The The poetical incident of most impor- tance in Tickell's life TICKEL L. 5.
... George he fung The Royal Progrejs ; which being inferted in the Spectator is well known , and of which it is juft to fay that it is neither high nor low . A 3 The The poetical incident of most impor- tance in Tickell's life TICKEL L. 5.
Pàgina 9
... known that " Mr. Tickell was publishing the first " book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young " in the street ; and , upon our falling into that fubject , the Doctor expreffed " a great " a great deal of furprize at Tickell's " having TICKEL L.
... known that " Mr. Tickell was publishing the first " book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young " in the street ; and , upon our falling into that fubject , the Doctor expreffed " a great " a great deal of furprize at Tickell's " having TICKEL L.
Pàgina 2
samuel johnson. Neither the time nor place of his birth are certainly known : if the in- fcription upon his monument be true , he was born in 1672. For the place ; it was faid by himself that he owed his na- tivity to England , and by ...
samuel johnson. Neither the time nor place of his birth are certainly known : if the in- fcription upon his monument be true , he was born in 1672. For the place ; it was faid by himself that he owed his na- tivity to England , and by ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 24 - His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations.
Pàgina 27 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Pàgina 16 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Pàgina 26 - Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted isle: We'll listen— LEONORA. Hark! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd, and still as death. — Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity!
Pàgina 27 - He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished with -beauty and enlarged with majesty.
Pàgina 4 - ... excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain.
Pàgina 53 - All I can say for those passages, which are, I hope, not many, is, that I knew they were bad enough to please, even when I writ them...
Pàgina 13 - ... and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause. Thus qualified, and thus incited, he walked out to battle, and assailed at once most of the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey.
Pàgina 23 - ... accumulation of attentive parsimony, which, though to her superfluous and useless, might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended, at that time by the imprudence of his relation reduced to difficulties and distress.
Pàgina 14 - His onset was violent; those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror. The wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge.