The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for plays : and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology , will pub- lish it.
... am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for plays : and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology , will pub- lish it.
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... play it is difficult now * 1669 . + Here is an error in the designation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page of the latter editions of Cowley's works : the title of the play itself is without the article ...
... play it is difficult now * 1669 . + Here is an error in the designation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page of the latter editions of Cowley's works : the title of the play itself is without the article ...
Sayfa 15
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
Sayfa 46
... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In ...
... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In ...
Sayfa 88
... plays , writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antick and dishonest gestures of Trincalos * , buffoons , and bawds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of courtiers ...
... plays , writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antick and dishonest gestures of Trincalos * , buffoons , and bawds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of courtiers ...
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Sayfa 173 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Sayfa 417 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Sayfa 2 - ... he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Sayfa 173 - This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body.
Sayfa 63 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Sayfa 97 - ... wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Sayfa 395 - There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves...
Sayfa 418 - As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the news around, Through town and country, till the dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies at last...
Sayfa 436 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Sayfa 408 - These fight like husbands, but like lovers those : These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy...