The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
... mind , ' and which are to please for more than a day , the first essential ingredient is novelty . There must be something unexpected , something surprising . In Lycidas there is no art ' because there is nothing new . ' ' The pleasures ...
... mind , ' and which are to please for more than a day , the first essential ingredient is novelty . There must be something unexpected , something surprising . In Lycidas there is no art ' because there is nothing new . ' ' The pleasures ...
Pàgina xvi
... mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' ' The four stanzas beginning , " Yet even these bones , " are to me , ' says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads ...
... mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' ' The four stanzas beginning , " Yet even these bones , " are to me , ' says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads ...
Pàgina xix
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy ...
Pàgina xxi
... mind ' works with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble . He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His art and his struggle are too visible , and there is too little appearance of ease ...
... mind ' works with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble . He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His art and his struggle are too visible , and there is too little appearance of ease ...
Pàgina xxvii
... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction , ' or that to imagine one's - self incapable of writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is ' fantastic foppery . ' The truth , indeed ...
... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction , ' or that to imagine one's - self incapable of writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is ' fantastic foppery . ' The truth , indeed ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1 Samuel Johnson,John Hepburn Millar Visualització completa - 1896 |
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