The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3

Samuel Johnson

J. Nichols and son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1806

Continguts

• SWIFT: 1
• BROOME: 49
• POPE: 54
• PITT: 218
• THOMSON: 221
• WATTS: 238
• A PHILIPS: 248
• WEST: 259
• COLLINS: 265
• DYER: 272
• SHENSTONE: 276
• YOUNG: 286
• MALLET: 347
• AKENSIDE: 355
• GRAY: 364
• LYTTELTON 980: 380

Passatges populars

Pàgina 317 - words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion than even in the author; that the Chriftian was in him a character ftill more infpired, more enraptured, more fublime, than the poet; and that, in his ordinary converfation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky.

Pàgina 82 - the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure fhed, And tip with filver every mountain's head ; Then ihine the vales, the rocks in profpeft rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the

Pàgina 186 - that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwife than by afking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition which

Pàgina 158 - circumference of fcience. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehenfive fpeculation ; and thofe of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the

Pàgina 82 - The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflection of the diftant fires . Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand piles the dufky horrors gild, And

Pàgina 225 - of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of

Pàgina 101 - almoft all the letters of the alphabet (the '' greateft part of them at random :) but fuch was " the number of poets eminent in that art, that " fome one or other took every letter to himfelf: *' all fell into fo violent a fury, that, for half a year " or more, the common newfpapers (in moft of "which

Pàgina 272 - charmer to vie j How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural ftrain of Hope: Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, When I

Pàgina 77 - from what offended Power ? Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the camp with mountains of the dead ; The King of men his reverend prieft defy'd, And for the King's offence the people dy'd. Declare, O Goddefs, what offended Power Enflam'd their rage, in that ill-omen d hour ; anger fatal,

Pàgina 118 - ought never to have another anfwer, " and deferved not fo good an one. I can only fay, " you do him too much honour, and me too much " right, fo odd as the expreffion feems; for you '' have made my fyftem as clear as I ought to have '' done, and could not. It is indeed the fame

Informació bibliogràfica

• Títol: The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3; The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Thomas Egerton (Bookseller)
• Autor: Samuel Johnson
• Col·laborador: J. Nichols and Son
• Editor: J. Nichols and son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1806
• Original de: Universitat d’Oxford
• Digitalitzat el: 10 Abr. 2006