The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xii
... delight ; by their -power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . ' Once more : ' Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local ...
... delight ; by their -power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . ' Once more : ' Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local ...
Pàgina xv
... delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many have died before us that our deaths can supply but few materials for a poet . After so many ...
... delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many have died before us that our deaths can supply but few materials for a poet . After so many ...
Pàgina xvii
... delightful images , and words to which we are nearly strangers , whenever they occur , draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things . ' " It is because of its greater capacity for producing pleasure that ...
... delightful images , and words to which we are nearly strangers , whenever they occur , draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things . ' " It is because of its greater capacity for producing pleasure that ...
Pàgina xviii
... delight the vigorous and animated periods in which Johnson analyses the method and ridicules the effect of Cowley's ' amatory ditties ' ? ' It is surely not difficult'- -so run his words - ' in the solitude of a college , or in the ...
... delight the vigorous and animated periods in which Johnson analyses the method and ridicules the effect of Cowley's ' amatory ditties ' ? ' It is surely not difficult'- -so run his words - ' in the solitude of a college , or in the ...
Pàgina xxii
... delight is mingled with instruction . ' Think of the numberless excellencies which dis- tinguish the work . Take , first , the soundness and brilliance of its critical judgments , apart altogether from the general theories which these ...
... delight is mingled with instruction . ' Think of the numberless excellencies which dis- tinguish the work . Take , first , the soundness and brilliance of its critical judgments , apart altogether from the general theories which these ...
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