The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the ...
... rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the ...
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... rhyme , and volubility of syllables . In perusing the works of this race of authors , the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry ; either something already learned is to be retrieved , or something new is to be examined ...
... rhyme , and volubility of syllables . In perusing the works of this race of authors , the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry ; either something already learned is to be retrieved , or something new is to be examined ...
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... rhyming prose ; But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than own the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse than so ; It now an artifice does grow Wrongs ...
... rhyming prose ; But in this thankless world the giver Is envied even by the receiver ; ' Tis now the cheap and frugal fashion Rather to hide than own the obligation : Nay , ' tis much worse than so ; It now an artifice does grow Wrongs ...
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... rhymes are very often made by pronouns , or particles , or the like unimportant words , which disappoint the ear , and destroy the energy of the line . His combination of different measures is some- times dissonant and unpleasing ; he ...
... rhymes are very often made by pronouns , or particles , or the like unimportant words , which disappoint the ear , and destroy the energy of the line . His combination of different measures is some- times dissonant and unpleasing ; he ...
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... rhyme or blank verse . 66 Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The digres- sions are too long , the morality too frequent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a ...
... rhyme or blank verse . 66 Cooper's Hill , " if it be maliciously inspected , will not be found without its faults . The digres- sions are too long , the morality too frequent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not bear a ...
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Página 74 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 73 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 375 - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them.
Página 35 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 206 - At the moment in which he expired, he uttered, with an energy of voice, that expressed the most fervent devotion, two lines of his own version of Dies Ira; : My God, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me in my end.
Página 144 - It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel.
Página 404 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Página 130 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Página 394 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Página 19 - Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments: and could no more represent, by their slender conceits 'and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon.