The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 16-20 di 23
Pagina 247
... stanzas are happily turned ; and , in all his writings , there are pleasing passages . He has , how- ever , more elegance than vigour , and seldom rises higher than to be pretty . F the great poet whose life I am about to 247 WALSH.
... stanzas are happily turned ; and , in all his writings , there are pleasing passages . He has , how- ever , more elegance than vigour , and seldom rises higher than to be pretty . F the great poet whose life I am about to 247 WALSH.
Pagina 265
... elegance , and many of empty noise and ridiculous turbulence . The rants of Maximin have been always the sport of criticism ; and were , at length , if his own confession may be trusted , the shame of the writer . Of this play he takes ...
... elegance , and many of empty noise and ridiculous turbulence . The rants of Maximin have been always the sport of criticism ; and were , at length , if his own confession may be trusted , the shame of the writer . Of this play he takes ...
Pagina 278
... elegance and sprightliness . Limberham , or the kind Keeper , 1680 , is a comedy , which , after the third night , was prohibited as too indecent for the stage . What gave offence , was in the printing , as the author says , altered or ...
... elegance and sprightliness . Limberham , or the kind Keeper , 1680 , is a comedy , which , after the third night , was prohibited as too indecent for the stage . What gave offence , was in the printing , as the author says , altered or ...
Pagina 281
... elegance and luxuriance of praise , as neither haughtiness nor avarice could be imagined able to resist . But he seems to have made flattery too cheap . That praise is worth nothing of which the price is known . To increase the value of ...
... elegance and luxuriance of praise , as neither haughtiness nor avarice could be imagined able to resist . But he seems to have made flattery too cheap . That praise is worth nothing of which the price is known . To increase the value of ...
Pagina 287
... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of preju- dice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , * Dryden translated two entire epistles , Canace to Macareus , and Dido to Eneas . Helen to Paris was ...
... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of preju- dice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , * Dryden translated two entire epistles , Canace to Macareus , and Dido to Eneas . Helen to Paris was ...
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