The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 58
... performance , while he had It is scarcely necessary to inform the reader , that this relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true , as far as relates to the existence of the play which he speaks of , namely , the Adamo of Andreini ; but it ...
... performance , while he had It is scarcely necessary to inform the reader , that this relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true , as far as relates to the existence of the play which he speaks of , namely , the Adamo of Andreini ; but it ...
Pagina 89
... performances is the Masque of Comus , in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradise Lost . Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment ...
... performances is the Masque of Comus , in which may very plainly be discovered the dawn or twilight of Paradise Lost . Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction , and mode of verse , which his maturer judgment ...
Pagina 92
... performance the second , among the productions of the human mind . By the general consent of criticks , the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly ...
... performance the second , among the productions of the human mind . By the general consent of criticks , the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly ...
Pagina 111
... performance , Paradise Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be considered not as nice but as dull ; as less to be censured for want of candour , than pitied for want of sensibility . Of Paradise Regained , the ...
... performance , Paradise Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be considered not as nice but as dull ; as less to be censured for want of candour , than pitied for want of sensibility . Of Paradise Regained , the ...
Pagina 114
... performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who , more prob- ably took his hint from Trissino's Italia Liberata ; and , finding blank verse easier than rhyme , was de- sirous of persuading himself that it is better ...
... performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who , more prob- ably took his hint from Trissino's Italia Liberata ; and , finding blank verse easier than rhyme , was de- sirous of persuading himself that it is better ...
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