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Page 235
... poetical exaggeration , which gives human passions to inanimate things : and particularly , upon when he himself writes in the foregoing play on this very subject , ... And made The water , which they beat , to follow faster , As ...
... poetical exaggeration , which gives human passions to inanimate things : and particularly , upon when he himself writes in the foregoing play on this very subject , ... And made The water , which they beat , to follow faster , As ...
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... poetical diction , no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From ...
... poetical diction , no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From ...
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... poetical simile is the discovery of likeness between two actions , in their general nature dissimilar , or of causes terminating by different operations in some resemblance of effect . But the mention of another like consequence from a ...
... poetical simile is the discovery of likeness between two actions , in their general nature dissimilar , or of causes terminating by different operations in some resemblance of effect . But the mention of another like consequence from a ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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action admiration Aeneid ancient appears attention beauties blank verse censure character comedy common composition considered Cowley criticism death delight dialogue diction dignity diligence drama Dryden easily easy edition effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence exhibit expression eyes F. R. Leavis Falstaff fancy faults genius give harmony heaven hexameter Hudibras human Iliad images imagination imitation Johnson judgment kind King knowledge labour language learning lines literary literature lived Lycidas Macbeth Metaphysical poets Milton mind moral nature never numbers observed opinion original Othello Paradise Lost passages passions pastoral perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise produced reader reason remarks rhyme Samson Samson Agonistes Samuel Johnson says scarcely scenes seems sense sentiments Shakespeare sometimes sound supposed syllables thee things thou thought tion tragedy translation truth versification Virgil virtue Warburton words writer written