Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review ... Ed. with Introduction, Notes and Index by F. C. Montague, Том 1Methuen & Company, 1903 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 77.
Страница vii
... JOHNSON LORD NUGENT's Memorials of HAMPDEN BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN HORACE Walpole PAGE V ix xi I 61 • III • 203 249 271 • 289 • 303 • 343 397 22 · 453 · 483 • 541 56 IT EDITOR'S PREFACE T would not be ...
... JOHNSON LORD NUGENT's Memorials of HAMPDEN BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN HORACE Walpole PAGE V ix xi I 61 • III • 203 249 271 • 289 • 303 • 343 397 22 · 453 · 483 • 541 56 IT EDITOR'S PREFACE T would not be ...
Страница xxi
... Johnson and the younger Pitt which he contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica , and which in some respects excel even the best of the Essays , prove that his literary power and skill had suffered no abatement . He almost finished a ...
... Johnson and the younger Pitt which he contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica , and which in some respects excel even the best of the Essays , prove that his literary power and skill had suffered no abatement . He almost finished a ...
Страница 9
... too late , or cold Climate , or years , damp my intended wing Depressed- -Paradise Lost , book ix . , lines 44-46 . 3 Johnson , " Life of Milton . " exception . Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a MILTON 9.
... too late , or cold Climate , or years , damp my intended wing Depressed- -Paradise Lost , book ix . , lines 44-46 . 3 Johnson , " Life of Milton . " exception . Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a MILTON 9.
Страница 14
... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual ...
... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual ...
Страница 26
... Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight , and ...
... Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight , and ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
admiration army became Boswell Byron Catholic century character Charles Church Clarendon constitution court Croker Cromwell crown death doctrines Duke Earl Elizabeth eminent enemies England English essay favour feeling France French genius Hallam Hampden honour Horace Walpole House of Bourbon House of Commons human interest Italy James Johnson King letters liberty literary literature lived Long Parliament Lord Lord Byron Lord Mahon Macaulay Macaulay's Machiavelli manner means Memoirs Milton mind minister nation nature never opinion Paradise Lost Parliament party persecution person Peterborough Petition of Right Philip poems poet poetry political Pope Prince principles Protestant Puritans Queen readers reason reform reign religion religious remarks respect Revolution Robert Montgomery says scarcely seems soldier Southey sovereign Spain Spanish spirit statesman Strafford thing thought tion took Tory Walpole Whig whole William writer wrote
Популярни откъси
Страница 301 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Страница 23 - I should much commend," says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton, " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto, I must plainly confess to you, I have seen yet nothing parallel in our language.
Страница 286 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Страница 52 - Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence.
Страница 350 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Страница 23 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Страница 270 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Страница 45 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Страница 319 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Страница 352 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.