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Those indeed , who profeffed learning , were not less learned than at any other
time ; but of that middle race of students who read for pleasure or
accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products of modern typography ,
the number was ...
Those indeed , who profeffed learning , were not less learned than at any other
time ; but of that middle race of students who read for pleasure or
accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products of modern typography ,
the number was ...
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... seeming to take delight in publication , a collection of Familiar Epistles in Latin ;
to which , being too few to make a volume , he added some academical
exercises , which perhaps he perused with pleasure , as they recalled to his
memory the ...
... seeming to take delight in publication , a collection of Familiar Epistles in Latin ;
to which , being too few to make a volume , he added some academical
exercises , which perhaps he perused with pleasure , as they recalled to his
memory the ...
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The fong of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but , what may recommend Milton ' s
morals as well as his poetry , the invitations to pleasure are fo general , that they
excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment , and take no dangerous hold on ...
The fong of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but , what may recommend Milton ' s
morals as well as his poetry , the invitations to pleasure are fo general , that they
excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment , and take no dangerous hold on ...
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Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine fources of poetry ; but poetical
pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical
terrour such as human ftrength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
Pleasure and terrour are indeed the genuine fources of poetry ; but poetical
pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical
terrour such as human ftrength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
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is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire har . raffed
and overburdened , and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master ,
and seek for companions . Another inconvenience of Milton ' s design is , that it ...
is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire har . raffed
and overburdened , and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master ,
and seek for companions . Another inconvenience of Milton ' s design is , that it ...
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Страница 27 - innovators whom I oppofe are turning off attention from life to nature. They feem to think', that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants, or the motions of the ftars. Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was, how to do good, and avoid evil. "Or//
Страница 25 - whether we wifh to be ufeful or pleafing, .the firft requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the hiftory of mankind, and with thofe examples which maybe faid to embody truth, and prove by events the reafonablenefs
Страница 22 - Ihould be degraded to a fchoolmafter; but fince it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that his motive was only zeal for the propagation of learning and virtue; and all tell what they do not know to be true,, only to excufe an
Страница 136 - .was not of the church of England. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are diftant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide. by. degrees out of the mind, unlefs it be invigorated and
Страница 23 - by an honeft and ufeful employment. It is told, that in the art of education he performed wonders; and a formidable lift is given of the authors, Greek and Latin, that were read in Alderfgate-ftreet, by youth between ten and fifteen or fixteen years of age. Thofe who tell or receive thefe ftories,
Страница 151 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten^ and though it be allowed that the reprefentation may be allegorical, the true meaning is fo uncertain and remote, •that it is never fought, becaufe it cannot be known when it
Страница 147 - them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lufcioufly elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by * the exquifite imitation of the ancient writers, by the purity of the diction, and the harmony of the numbers, than by any power of invention, or vigour of
Страница 216 - melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance. Of the Italian writers without rhyme, whom Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular ; what reafon could urge in its •defence, has been confuted by the ear. But, whatever be the advantage of rhyme, I cannot prevail on myfelf to wifh
Страница 6 - fortunate poet to his new patron. At " laft an appointment was made, and " the place of meeting was agreed to " be the Roebuck. Mr. Butler and " his friend attended accordingly: the ** duke joined them; but, as the d—1 " would have it, the door of the room ** where they fat was open, and his
Страница 165 - however adapted to the Italian language, has never fucceeded in ours, which, having greater variety of termination, requires the rhymes to be often changed. Thofe little pieces may be difpatched without -much anxiety; a greater work calls for greater care. I am now to examine Paradife Loft; a poem, which, •confidered with
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| Заглавие | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 60 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Francesco Bartolozzi |
| Автор | Samuel Johnson |
| Илюстрации от | James Caldwall, Thomas Cook, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Hall |
| Сътрудници | Henry Hughs, John Nichols, Charles Bathurst |
| Издател | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Оригиналът е от | Нюйоркската обществена библиотека |
| Цифровизирана на | 21 Окт 2005 |
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