... been content with restoring antiquated words and phrases, but have indulged themselves in the most licentious transpositions, and the harshest constructions, vainly imagining, that the more their writings are unlike prose, the more they resemble poetry.... The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Página 200por Oliver Goldsmith - 1809Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Parnell - 1770 - 294 páginas
...underftand. From thefe follies and affedtations, the poems of Parnell are entirely free ; he has conildered the language of poetry as the language of life, and conveys the •warmeft thoughts in the fimpleft expreffion. Parnell has written feveral poems befides thefe publifhed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 328 páginas
...underftand.. From thefe Folli;:s and Affectations, the Poems of Parnell are entirely free j he has confidered the Language of Poetry as the Language of Life, and conveys the wanneft Thoughts in the fimpleft Expreifion. . Parnell has written feveral Poems bcfides thefe publifhed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 332 páginas
...uoderftand. Fiom thefe Follies and AffecTation* the Poems of Parnell are entirely free 5 he has conw fidered the Language of Poetry as the Language of Life, and conveys the warmeft Thoughts in 'the Cmpleft Expreffion., , . .... ,.,?, .,r. •!•••' *no.-biiboiM Parnell... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 328 páginas
...filent, and thofe who make out their Meaning, are willing to praife, to fhew they underftand. From thefe Follies and Affectations,, the Poems of Parnell are entirely free ; he has confidered the Language of Poetry as the Language of Life, and conveys the warmeft Thoughts in the... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...innovators,' of whom he said in his Life of Parnell: — ' They have adopted a language of their own, and call upon mankind for admiration. All those who do...meaning are willing to praise to show they understand.' Goldsmith's Misc. Works, iv. 22. 1 Johnson, perhaps, refers to the anonymous critic quoted by Mason... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...innovators,' of whom he said in his Life of Parnell: — ' They have adopted a language of their own, and call upon mankind for admiration. All those who do...meaning are willing to praise to show they understand.' Goldsmith's Misc. Works, iv. 22. ' Johnson, perhaps, refers to the anonymous critic quoted by Mason... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 páginas
...writings are unlike prose, the more they resemble poetry. They have adopted a language of their own, and call upon mankind for admiration. All those who do...of poetry as the language of life, and conveys the wannest thoughts in the simplest expressions. ~' NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY J, Johnson, Jet. T. Bewich, sculp.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 páginas
...writings are unlike prose, the more they resemble poetry. They have adopted a language of their own, and call upon mankind for admiration. All those who do...who make out their meaning are willing to praise, to shew they understand. From these follies and affectations the poems of Parnell are entirely free; he... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 páginas
...unlike prose, the more they resemble poetry. They have T 3 adopted adopted a language of their own, and call upon mankind for admiration. All those who do not understand them, arc silent, and those who mak? out their meaning are willing to praise, to shew they understand. From... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 páginas
...may be inferred from his commendation of Parnell's Poems in his Life of that poet, who " considers the language of poetry as the language of life, and...the warmest thoughts in the simplest expression." This, applying as it does rather to the outwardness than to the substance and essence of poetry, became... | |
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