The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 25.
Pàgina xvi
... diction . ' ' The topics of devotion are few , and being few are universally known ; but , few as they are , they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment , and very little from novelty of expression ...
... diction . ' ' The topics of devotion are few , and being few are universally known ; but , few as they are , they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment , and very little from novelty of expression ...
Pàgina xviii
... diction are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation . ' And the splendid panegyric which closes the life of Milton is suitably prefaced by this significant and magnanimous avowal : ' Whatever be the advantage of ...
... diction are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation . ' And the splendid panegyric which closes the life of Milton is suitably prefaced by this significant and magnanimous avowal : ' Whatever be the advantage of ...
Pàgina xxi
... diction is harsh , its rhymes uncertain , and its numbers unpleasing . The common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices applauds The Bard , and sets even greater store by The Progress of Poesy ; Johnson laughs ...
... diction is harsh , its rhymes uncertain , and its numbers unpleasing . The common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices applauds The Bard , and sets even greater store by The Progress of Poesy ; Johnson laughs ...
Pàgina 9
... diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
... diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
Pàgina 13
... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If , by a more noble and more adequate conception , that be ...
... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If , by a more noble and more adequate conception , that be ...
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 commission of array 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 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 style supposed sweet sweet noise thee things thou thought told tragedy translation truth versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote