The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 71
Pagina 2
... Waller remarked , " that he broke out like the Irish rebellion , three score thousand strong , when nobody was aware , or in the least suspected it : " an observation which could have had no propriety had his poetical abilities been ...
... Waller remarked , " that he broke out like the Irish rebellion , three score thousand strong , when nobody was aware , or in the least suspected it : " an observation which could have had no propriety had his poetical abilities been ...
Pagina 5
... Waller , " says Prior , " improved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various compositions , descriptive , ludicrous , didactick , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all ...
... Waller , " says Prior , " improved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various compositions , descriptive , ludicrous , didactick , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all ...
Pagina 36
... Waller's army . But the new modelling of the army proved an obstruction to the design . " An event cannot be set at a much greater distance than by having been only " designed about some time , " if a man " be not much mistaken ...
... Waller's army . But the new modelling of the army proved an obstruction to the design . " An event cannot be set at a much greater distance than by having been only " designed about some time , " if a man " be not much mistaken ...
Pagina 144
... Waller most of this account must be borrowed , though I know not whether all that he relates is certain . The instructer whom he assigns to Roscommon is one Dr. Hall , by whom he cannot mean the famous Hall , then an old man and a ...
... Waller most of this account must be borrowed , though I know not whether all that he relates is certain . The instructer whom he assigns to Roscommon is one Dr. Hall , by whom he cannot mean the famous Hall , then an old man and a ...
Pagina 154
... Waller . His versions of the two odes of Horace are made with great liberty , which is not recompensed by much elegance or vigour . His political verses are sprightly , and , when they were written , must have been very popular . Of the ...
... Waller . His versions of the two odes of Horace are made with great liberty , which is not recompensed by much elegance or vigour . His political verses are sprightly , and , when they were written , must have been very popular . Of the ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
admired Æneid afterwards appears blank verse Butler censured character Charles Charles Dryden church Clarendon Comus confessed considered Cowley criticism Cromwell daughter Davenant death defend delight Denham diction dramatick Dryden duke Duke of Guise earl elegance English epick excellence fancy father favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden king known labour lady language Latin learned lines lord lord Conway lord Roscommon Malone Marriage à-la-mode ment mention Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regained parliament performance perhaps Philips play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry pounds praise preface publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed thing thought tion Tonson tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey write written wrote