The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xii
... reader throws away . ' Once more : ' Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole . Other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedionsness ...
... reader throws away . ' Once more : ' Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole . Other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedionsness ...
Pàgina xvi
... reader of Johnson's favourite 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 ...
... reader of Johnson's favourite 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 ...
Pàgina xviii
... reader , however willing to be pleased . ' Such was Johnson's view and there was much to justify it . Most of the writers of blank verse , subsequent to Milton , seem to have proceeded on the assumption that ' not to write prose is ...
... reader , however willing to be pleased . ' Such was Johnson's view and there was much to justify it . Most of the writers of blank verse , subsequent to Milton , seem to have proceeded on the assumption that ' not to write prose is ...
Pàgina xx
... reader has , doubtless , observed that , so far as we have yet traced it , Johnson's system of criticism remains ... readers of every class . ' The other method is to nominate a body of men - be its number great or small - whose ...
... reader has , doubtless , observed that , so far as we have yet traced it , Johnson's system of criticism remains ... readers of every class . ' The other method is to nominate a body of men - be its number great or small - whose ...
Pàgina xxi
... reader : ' for , ' says he , ' by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices , after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning , must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours . ' Well ...
... reader : ' for , ' says he , ' by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices , after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning , must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours . ' Well ...
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