The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 էջ |
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... desires even so much as a general acquaintance with English literature ; and so much acquaintance as this who does not desire ? The work as Johnson published it is not fitted to serve as such a text - book ; it is too extensive , and ...
... desires even so much as a general acquaintance with English literature ; and so much acquaintance as this who does not desire ? The work as Johnson published it is not fitted to serve as such a text - book ; it is too extensive , and ...
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... desire to ascend upwards to our anterior literature , or to come downwards to the literature of yesterday and of the present . The six lives cover a period of literary and intellectual movement in which we are all profoundly interested ...
... desire to ascend upwards to our anterior literature , or to come downwards to the literature of yesterday and of the present . The six lives cover a period of literary and intellectual movement in which we are all profoundly interested ...
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... desire for a good prose , —a prose plain , direct , intelligible , serviceable . A dead language , the Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet ...
... desire for a good prose , —a prose plain , direct , intelligible , serviceable . A dead language , the Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet ...
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With Macaulay's Life of Johnson Samuel Johnson Matthew Arnold. Restoration the desire and the commencement of a modern prose show themselves . There were men like Barrow , weighty and powerful , whose mental habit the old prose suited ...
With Macaulay's Life of Johnson Samuel Johnson Matthew Arnold. Restoration the desire and the commencement of a modern prose show themselves . There were men like Barrow , weighty and powerful , whose mental habit the old prose suited ...
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... desire , to tell the story of a whole important age of English literature in one compendious volume , — itself , at the same time , a piece of English literature of the very first class . Such a work the reader has in his hands in the ...
... desire , to tell the story of a whole important age of English literature in one compendious volume , — itself , at the same time , a piece of English literature of the very first class . Such a work the reader has in his hands in the ...
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Էջ 417 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Էջ 389 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Էջ 97 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries ; but what image of tenderness...
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Էջ 417 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.