The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... criticism of which our language can boast . ' Such is Boswell's commentary upon the Lives . Later writers have , no ... critics that the Lives are conspicuously and lamentably deficient in a particular wherein the present age has covered ...
... criticism of which our language can boast . ' Such is Boswell's commentary upon the Lives . Later writers have , no ... critics that the Lives are conspicuously and lamentably deficient in a particular wherein the present age has covered ...
Pàgina xii
... criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according to Johnson , is not a matter of hard and fast rule . It is essentially a matter of perception , not of principle , whatever they may say who sneer at Addison's judgments as ...
... criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according to Johnson , is not a matter of hard and fast rule . It is essentially a matter of perception , not of principle , whatever they may say who sneer at Addison's judgments as ...
Pàgina xiv
... criticism ' : ' The vigorous contraction of some thoughts , the luxuriant amplification of others , the incidental illustrations , and sometimes the dignity , sometimes the softness , of the verses , enchain philosophy , suspend criticism ...
... criticism ' : ' The vigorous contraction of some thoughts , the luxuriant amplification of others , the incidental illustrations , and sometimes the dignity , sometimes the softness , of the verses , enchain philosophy , suspend criticism ...
Pàgina xviii
... critics have not always been apt to display , he recognised the eminent merit of Thomson , and perceived that he had dis- covered a new convention . His blank verse , he observed , ' is no more the blank verse of Milton or of any other ...
... critics have not always been apt to display , he recognised the eminent merit of Thomson , and perceived that he had dis- covered a new convention . His blank verse , he observed , ' is no more the blank verse of Milton or of any other ...
Pàgina xx
... criticism remains incom- plete and one - sided . It has been seen that poetry , by means of making new things familiar and familiar things new , is to afford pleasure . Pleasure to whom ? If it be pleasure to any- body and everybody ...
... criticism remains incom- plete and one - sided . It has been seen that poetry , by means of making new things familiar and familiar things new , is to afford pleasure . Pleasure to whom ? If it be pleasure to any- body and everybody ...
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