He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation... The Works of Samuel Johnson - Página 197por Samuel Johnson - 1810Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...compositions should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language,...poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in 'The Mourning Bride :' Mm. Itwasafancy'd noise; for all ishush'd.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 páginas
...compositions, should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in these little 2B 1 know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in "The Mourn ing Bnde :" ALMERÍA. It wan a fancied... | |
| William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 páginas
...of sympathy, (not to speak it irreverently) with poetry of the highest order, tells us, that if he were " required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph" (observe the instinct of that word !) " he knows not what he could prefer to ал exclamation in the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...effect." Croker'i Boticell, vol. ii. p. 86. " If I were required," he says, in his life of Congreve. " to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to this. lie who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 páginas
...other occasion discover nothing but itnpoence and poverty, lie lias in these little pieces icither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification ; yet, if [ were required о select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, 1 know... | |
| William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 páginas
...regulated — a sad estimate of the labours of a literary life ! The same high authority, however, says, " if I were required to select from the whole mass of...poetry, the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourniny Bride:" — Almeria, It was a fancied noise ; for... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 páginas
...compositions should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language,...poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : " A,IM [•::', IA. It was a fancied noiae... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 páginas
...compositions should on any other occasion discover nothing but impotence and poverty. lie has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language,...poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in ' The Mourning Bride :' ALMERIA. " It was a fancied noise ; for... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 páginas
...discover nothing but impotence and poverty. He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fanty, selection of language, nor skill in versification...Poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in ' The Mourning Bride :' ALHXBIA. " It wu a fancied noise ; for... | |
| William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 páginas
...of sympathy, (not to speak it irreverently) with poetry of the highest order, tells us, that if he rs. Ami. Pity indeed ; for he's a hopeful young man to look on ; but he leads a life—Well (observe the instinct of that word !) " he knows not what he could prefer te an exclamation in the... | |
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