The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xi
... passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who made interest for the inclusion in the English poets of Blackmore , Watts , Pomfret and Yalden , and who excluded , or ...
... passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who made interest for the inclusion in the English poets of Blackmore , Watts , Pomfret and Yalden , and who excluded , or ...
Pàgina xvi
... passage from The Mourning Bride , ' feels what he remembers to have felt before , but he feels it with a great increase of sensibility ; he recognises a familiar image , but meets it again amplified and expanded , embellished with ...
... passage from The Mourning Bride , ' feels what he remembers to have felt before , but he feels it with a great increase of sensibility ; he recognises a familiar image , but meets it again amplified and expanded , embellished with ...
Pàgina xxi
... passage Johnson deliberately chooses his tribunal . Speaking of Gray's Elegy , he rejoices to concur with the common reader : ' for , ' says he , ' by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices , after all the ...
... passage Johnson deliberately chooses his tribunal . Speaking of Gray's Elegy , he rejoices to concur with the common reader : ' for , ' says he , ' by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices , after all the ...
Pàgina xxiv
... passages are , it is , however , in the life of Milton that Johnson exhibits his polemical power to the greatest advantage . The opportunity was a unique one , and he was not the man to miss it . ' Milton , being now cleared from all ...
... passages are , it is , however , in the life of Milton that Johnson exhibits his polemical power to the greatest advantage . The opportunity was a unique one , and he was not the man to miss it . ' Milton , being now cleared from all ...
Pàgina xxix
... passages or so where we catch the genuine ' Johnsonian ' cadence in the cant meaning of the term , of which one is to be found in the Waller , another in the Dryden , and the third in the Savage . To refute the calumnies which criticism ...
... passages or so where we catch the genuine ' Johnsonian ' cadence in the cant meaning of the term , of which one is to be found in the Waller , another in the Dryden , and the third in the Savage . To refute the calumnies which criticism ...
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