Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of Dryden and Pope, and Rasselas1879 |
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... criticism alone , if other claims were wanting . His Lives of the Poets are rather critiques than biographies , and in this respect they stand almost by themselves in the contemporary literature . Criticism before Johnson's time was an ...
... criticism alone , if other claims were wanting . His Lives of the Poets are rather critiques than biographies , and in this respect they stand almost by themselves in the contemporary literature . Criticism before Johnson's time was an ...
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... critic , and at the discovery of which no one seems to have been more surprised than Pope himself , though he gladly adopted what was thus fathered upon him . But criticism as an art , proceed- ing by the impartial application of rules ...
... critic , and at the discovery of which no one seems to have been more surprised than Pope himself , though he gladly adopted what was thus fathered upon him . But criticism as an art , proceed- ing by the impartial application of rules ...
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... criticism they contain . We are able to begin quite at the beginning in considering the general subject of criticism ; and to the first and most essential question , as to who is rightly constituted a critic , we find at least a partial ...
... criticism they contain . We are able to begin quite at the beginning in considering the general subject of criticism ; and to the first and most essential question , as to who is rightly constituted a critic , we find at least a partial ...
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... criticism itself . How are we to judge of an author ? To this we can find in these Lives three answers ; two of which however are only partial , and serve rather as cautions than as final tests : - To judge rightly of an author we must ...
... criticism itself . How are we to judge of an author ? To this we can find in these Lives three answers ; two of which however are only partial , and serve rather as cautions than as final tests : - To judge rightly of an author we must ...
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... criticism laid down by Johnson in this work . Notably we must except that one which concerns the difficulty of the subject - matter of a poetical composition . We can collect his opinion on this head from more than one passage in the ...
... criticism laid down by Johnson in this work . Notably we must except that one which concerns the difficulty of the subject - matter of a poetical composition . We can collect his opinion on this head from more than one passage in the ...
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Page 417 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 400 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 454 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 253 - Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Page xvii - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page x - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 98 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
Page 102 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 392 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Page 415 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.