The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 19Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... verse , nor choice of words , nor diftinction of thoughts ; but mingle farthings with their gold to make up the fum . Here is a field of fatire opened to me : but , fince the Revolu- tion , I have wholly renounced that talent . For who ...
... verse , nor choice of words , nor diftinction of thoughts ; but mingle farthings with their gold to make up the fum . Here is a field of fatire opened to me : but , fince the Revolu- tion , I have wholly renounced that talent . For who ...
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... verses to the memory of Shakespeare : an infolent , fparing , and invidious panegyric : where good - nature , the moft godlike commendation of a man , is only attributed to your perfon , and denied to your writings for they are every ...
... verses to the memory of Shakespeare : an infolent , fparing , and invidious panegyric : where good - nature , the moft godlike commendation of a man , is only attributed to your perfon , and denied to your writings for they are every ...
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... verses are fo numerous , fo various , and harmo- nious , that only Virgil , whom he profeffedly imitated , has surpassed him , among the Romans ; and only Mr. Waller among the English . As for Mr. Milton , whom we all admire with fo ...
... verses are fo numerous , fo various , and harmo- nious , that only Virgil , whom he profeffedly imitated , has surpassed him , among the Romans ; and only Mr. Waller among the English . As for Mr. Milton , whom we all admire with fo ...
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... verse ; and they answered in the fame kind of grofs raillery ; their wit and their mufic being of a piece . The Gre- cians , fays Cafaubon , had formerly done the fame in the perfons of their petulant fatyrs : but I am afraid he ...
... verse ; and they answered in the fame kind of grofs raillery ; their wit and their mufic being of a piece . The Gre- cians , fays Cafaubon , had formerly done the fame in the perfons of their petulant fatyrs : but I am afraid he ...
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... verse : amongst the Greeks , by thofe who represented fatyrs ; and amongst the Romans by real.clowns . For , indeed , when I am reading Cafaubon on these two fubjects , methinks I hear the same story told twice over with very little ...
... verse : amongst the Greeks , by thofe who represented fatyrs ; and amongst the Romans by real.clowns . For , indeed , when I am reading Cafaubon on these two fubjects , methinks I hear the same story told twice over with very little ...
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Страница 195 - I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic.
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Страница 194 - The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury.
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Страница 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat...