The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiv
... Mere prettiness will not suffice . Pretty things , which are pretty and no more , are ' flowers fragrant and fair , but of short duration ; or they are Such blossoms to be valued only as they foretell fruits xiv INTRODUCTION TO.
... Mere prettiness will not suffice . Pretty things , which are pretty and no more , are ' flowers fragrant and fair , but of short duration ; or they are Such blossoms to be valued only as they foretell fruits xiv INTRODUCTION TO.
Pàgina xvi
... things must be made new , so , to avoid the monotony of a perpetual succession of surprises , new things must be made familiar . He who successfully performs that double task exhibits ' the two most engaging powers of an author ...
... things must be made new , so , to avoid the monotony of a perpetual succession of surprises , new things must be made familiar . He who successfully performs that double task exhibits ' the two most engaging powers of an author ...
Pàgina xvii
... things . ' 6 It is because of its greater capacity for producing pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for ...
... things . ' 6 It is because of its greater capacity for producing pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for ...
Pàgina xx
... things familiar and familiar things new , is to afford pleasure . Pleasure to whom ? If it be pleasure to any- body and everybody , then ' what is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good until it has been found to please ...
... things familiar and familiar things new , is to afford pleasure . Pleasure to whom ? If it be pleasure to any- body and everybody , then ' what is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good until it has been found to please ...
Pàgina xxii
... thing more patently instructive and fruitful than the corre- sponding definition of the ultimate standard of Virtue . Be it so , or be it not , that the Lives ' contain such principles and illustrations of criticism as , if digested and ...
... thing more patently instructive and fruitful than the corre- sponding definition of the ultimate standard of Virtue . Be it so , or be it not , that the Lives ' contain such principles and illustrations of criticism as , if digested and ...
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