The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 59.
Pàgina viii
... better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him by an Irish painter : a man , he maintained , ' of a great deal of knowledge of the world , fresh from life ...
... better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him by an Irish painter : a man , he maintained , ' of a great deal of knowledge of the world , fresh from life ...
Pàgina viii
... better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him by an Irish painter : a man , he maintained , ' of a great deal of knowledge of the world , fresh from life ...
... better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him by an Irish painter : a man , he maintained , ' of a great deal of knowledge of the world , fresh from life ...
Pàgina xii
... better than that of the ear ; and the prime merit of Dryden's critical work consists in its being the criticism of a poet and not a ' dull collection of theorems . ' Hence we reach the cardinal proposition , that the object of poetry is ...
... better than that of the ear ; and the prime merit of Dryden's critical work consists in its being the criticism of a poet and not a ' dull collection of theorems . ' Hence we reach the cardinal proposition , that the object of poetry is ...
Pàgina xiii
... better example ' than suicide . But , upon the whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over- niceness he might have visited with severity , but his point of view is quite different from ...
... better example ' than suicide . But , upon the whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over- niceness he might have visited with severity , but his point of view is quite different from ...
Pàgina xiv
... better than Johnson , who , with incomparable skill , has exposed the triteness of its maxims , and the tenuity of its reasoning . Yet with what generous enthusiasm he hails that ' egregious instance of the predominance of genius ...
... better than Johnson , who , with incomparable skill , has exposed the triteness of its maxims , and the tenuity of its reasoning . Yet with what generous enthusiasm he hails that ' egregious instance of the predominance of genius ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1 Samuel Johnson,John Hepburn Millar Visualització completa - 1896 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Absalom and Achitophel admiration Æneid afterwards Almanzor ancient appears beauties Bedfordshire blank verse censure character Charles Dryden Clarendon composition confessed considered Cowley criticism death delight Denham diction Dryden Duke Earl elegance English excellence fancy father faults favour friends genius Georgics happy heroic honour hope Hudibras images imagination imitation John Dryden John Pomfret Johnson King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines live Lord Lord Buckhurst Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost Parliament passage passions perhaps perusal Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface produced prose published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme ridiculous satire says seems sentiments shepherd sometimes stanza style supposed sweet sweet noise thee things thou thought told tragedy translation truth versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote