The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xi
... truth , to praise that ballad as Addison praised it is to the full as wrong - headed as to find in it nought but ' chill and lifeless imbecility . ' ) To expatiate on what seem to us mistaken views were superfluous . Nor need we long ...
... truth , to praise that ballad as Addison praised it is to the full as wrong - headed as to find in it nought but ' chill and lifeless imbecility . ' ) To expatiate on what seem to us mistaken views were superfluous . Nor need we long ...
Pàgina xii
... truth by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their -power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away ...
... truth by calling imagination to the help of reason . ' ' Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their -power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away ...
Pàgina xiii
... truth moral or political ' that he could see ) - ' might have been concluded with an action of better example ' than suicide . But , upon the whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over ...
... truth moral or political ' that he could see ) - ' might have been concluded with an action of better example ' than suicide . But , upon the whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over ...
Pàgina xviii
... truth to say of them that their blank verses will be found by such as can read them to be like those of their neighbours . ' But though Johnson , naturally and justifiably , considered rhyme to be the necessary concomitant of poetry ...
... truth to say of them that their blank verses will be found by such as can read them to be like those of their neighbours . ' But though Johnson , naturally and justifiably , considered rhyme to be the necessary concomitant of poetry ...
Pàgina xix
... truth ' ; into believing that he who pro- fesses love ought to feel its power . ' O righteous judge ! O excellent old man ! Turn to the life of Milton , and you find that these are the very weapons which Johnson , to the horror of ...
... truth ' ; into believing that he who pro- fesses love ought to feel its power . ' O righteous judge ! O excellent old man ! Turn to the life of Milton , and you find that these are the very weapons which Johnson , to the horror of ...
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