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Prefaces biographical and critical to the Works of the English
Poets, ^ySamuel Johnson, LLt D. Tols. V.
VIII. IX. X.
THESE volumes are a continuation of a most leafrfdd and
ingenious work, and compleat the elegant edition of
Englilh Poets published by the booksellers of London.,
The character both of the author and his performance are
already too well kno\vn and eftab^hed in the republick of let
ters, to make any further recommendation necedary ; it may
be fufficient, therefore, to observe, that in these Lives of the
Poets we meet with the fame critical penetration and fagicity,
the fame accurate knowledge of men and manners, judicious
reflections; nervous style, and manly sentiments, that diftin
guiftied the former volumcs.-=This part of the work is, at the
fame time more Interesting; as it contains the lives, arid displays
the chambers, of persons living nearly in our own times; and
whom some of us were, -perhaps, personally acquainted with,
Pope, Swift, Gay, Thomson, Young, Collins, Gray, Dyer,
Aken fide, &c. -
The following chara^er of Addison, which we find at the
conclusion of his life isequaHy just and delicate.
"As a describer of life'arc manners, he must be allowed
to stand perhaps the firff ofthe firft rank. His humour, which,
as Steele obfcrves, is peculiar t& himfelf, is so happily diffufed
as to give the grace of novelty to domeftick scenes and daily
occurrences, lie never outfteps the. modesty of Nature, por
raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His fi
gures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation.
He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said
to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original,
that it is difficult to fappofe them not merely the product of
imagination..
“ As a teacher of wifdora he may be confidently followed.
His rcligian has nothing in it crithufiaftick or superstitious : he
appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly feeptieal: his
morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid.
[All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argu
;ment are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest,
rthe care of pleating the Author of his being. Truth is (hewn
ifometimes as the phantom of a vision, sometimes appears half
veiled in an allegory: lomctimca attracts regard in the robes
of Fancy, and sometimes steps forth in the confidence of Rea
fori. She wears a thousand dreffes^and in all is pleasing.
“ Alille babet orru/uj, mille derenter habet.
& " His prose is the model of the middle style ;on grave fub
je^snot formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure with
.out fcrupulohty, and<xa& without apparent elaboration ; al
ways equable, and" always eai%, without glowing words or
pointed sentences, - Addison never deviates from his track to
Inatcira gr^cr; tefeeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no
4 hazardous innovations, - His page is always luminous, but ne
ver blazes in unexpected fplendour.
; :f' It feerns to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all
^ hanhn^s and severity pf di&ion, he is therefore sometimes
$ verbpfe in his-transitions and connexions, and sometimes de
feends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his
p language-had been Icis-idiomatical, it might have loft somewhat
: ot its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed;
! he is never feeble, and he did not wifb to be energetigk ;he is
• J,, 12 !"'’ a ?d he n^er ftaghAtes. His sentences have neither
studied amplitude, nofr affe&d brevity: hij periods, though
not diligently rounded; are voluble and easy. Whoever withes
,toattain au, English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant
! but not ostentatious, must give his daysand nights to the vo
; lumes of Add-on,” j J b
To - fhfs we will fribblin' what otir author has said of that
amiable man and excellcnt pocf, James Thomson.
" rhorrifoff, (fays'Dr. fchtifon) as a writer, is entitled td
bne praise of the liigheft kind; his mode of thinking, and of
expreffinghis thoughts, is driginal. His blahk verse is no more
the blank verse of Milton, "or ans other poet, than the rhymes
I'rior.^re the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses,
his di<ftiori ar£ of his own growth, without tranfeription, with
out imitation.' He thinkgliEa peculiar train, and he thinks al
ways asa man of genius ^he looks round on Nature and on
Lite, witlvtheeye which Nature bestows only on a poet; the
eye that diftinguilhes, in -every thing presented to its view,
whatever there is ou which Imagination can delight to be de
tdincd_ and with & i»ind that at once comprehends the vast,
and attends to the minute. The reader of the Scafons Won
ders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and
he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
" His is one of the works in which blank verse fecms pro
perly used; Thomfon', rode expansion of general views, and
', cm ^ ner ' ti ° n o ' c^cufhftantial varieties, would have been
obftruded andtmMrfaffed by the frequeht inttrfedions of the
sense, which are necell'ary rfeds of rhyme.
" His descriptions of extended feeries and general effeXs
before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether
pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the fplendour of
Summer, the tranquility of^Aufumn, and the horror 0f Winter,
take in their turns poffeffioy^f the mind. The poet leads us
through the appearances of thing&as they are successively va
"c vie l "'' l "'' B °f the year, and imparts to us so much
of his own enthniiafm, that our thoughts expand with his
imagery r f and kindl&with¥itfcntiments. Nor is the natural
ill without his part in th© entertainment; for he is affixed to
recoiled and to combines to arrange his diicoveries, and to
amplify the sphere of his contemplation. w
" The great defeft of.the Seasons is want of method; but
for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many ap-
P ear a n ces fubtifting all.at once, no rule can be given why one
rid be mentioned before an other ; yet the 'memory wants
the , help, of order, and the gunofity is not excited by. suspense
or expectation, 1
" Uis diction isir Jhehigh^ft degree florid and luxuriant,
such as may be fijd, to^ fe to his images and thoughts both
their luftre and,their (hade ;sfuch as inverts them with, fplen
dour, through which perhaps they are not always easily dis
cerned. „ It is too exuberant, and sometimes may be charged
with tilling the earmorelhan the mind:
“ These Poems, with which I was acquainted at their firft
appearance, I have since found altered and enlarged by subse
quent revifals, as the author supposed his judgment to grow
more exact, and as books or conversation extended his know
ledge and opened hi^prpfpe&s. They are, I think, improved
in general ; yet I know not whether they have mot loft part of
what Temple calls their race ; a word which, applied to wines,
in its primitive sense, mans the flavour of the foil.?.
This criticism is elegant, candid, and judicious; the praise
bestowed is not (as praifei often are) vague, general, and in
diferiminate, but founded on true taste and rcafon ; ngr is the
censure lefsjuft.
Though .Dr. JoJinfon's, critical determinations will always
be received with deference and refpeft, we much doubt whe
ther they will be implicitly submitted to with regard to that
great favourite of the ladies Matthew Prior, whom our bio
grapher seems to have placed iu a lower scale of merit than is
generally allotted to him.—Of this poet, Dr. Johnson has ta
ken the liberty to fay, that his love verses are not dilated by
nature, and have neither gallantry nor tenderness; that his
mythological allusions are despicable ; and that when he tries
to ad the lover without the help of his gods and goddefles, his
thoughts are unaffetting or remote ; that hie Henry and Emma
10 a dull, tediow dialogue.
" e "'"I ternary, the firft gives a mythological birth
Shakespeare. What is laid of that mighty genius is true;
but it is not said happily: the real effects of his poetical power
°' '^ht by the pomp of machinery. Where truth
is fufficient to fill the mind, fiction is worse than useless; the
counterfeit debases the genuine.
account of Milton's blindness, if we suppose it caused
n in the formation of his poem, a supposition surely
allowable, is poetically true, and happily imagined. But the
°. Dryden, with his two coursers, has nothing in it pecu
liar; it is a car in which any other rider may be placed.
" The Bard appears, at the firft view, to be, as Algorotti
and others have remarked, an imitation of the Prophecy of
Nereus. Algorotti thinks it superior to its original; and, h
preference depends only on the imagery and animation of the
two poems, his judgment is right. There is in the Bard more
force, more thought, and more variety. But to copy is l e ' s
than to invent, and the copy has been unhappily produced at
a wrong time. The fiction of Horace was to the Romans ere-
« His Poem (fays our Author) on the Battle of Ramilies
necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : ah unifonn mats
of ten lines, thirty-five times repeated, inconsequential and
nightly coDneded, must weary both the ear and the under
standing. His imitation of Spenser, which consists principal!;
In / queen and I queet, without exclusion of later modes of
fifcech, makes his poem neither ancient nor modern. Hi s
Mention of Mars and Belloha, and his edmparifon of Marlbo
rough to the Eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter, are all
puerile and unaffefting; and yet more despicable is the lonz
tale told by Lewis in his despair, of Brute and Troynovante
and the teeth of Cadmus, with his fimilies of the raven and
eagle, and wolf and lion. By the help of such easy fifties
and vulgar topicks, without acquaintance with life, and with^
out knowledge of art or nature, a poem of any length, cold
and lifclefs like this, may be easily written on any fubjea."
He tells us afterwards, that Prior's Alma has no plan, and
that his Solomon is tedious and tininterefting; and that what
ever he claims above mediocrity, seems the effort of ftru^te
and of toil.
" He has (fays he) many vigorous but few happy lines' be
has every thing by purchase, arid nothing by gift ; he had no
nightly visitations of the Muse, no infufions of sentiment or
felici ties of fancy."
The legality of thb severe feiitence against poor Matt, will
probably be disputed in the court of criticism by some of has
warm friends and admirers—We ffiall not, however; enter
into the contention, but proceed to observe, that dur biogra
phieal legislator, in another part o' this work, has again bold
ly Peered against the tide of popular opinion, by calling in
quelbon the tranfeendent excellence of dur modern Pindar
Mr. Gray, whom he has dethroned and degraded, in the fol
lowing terms.
“ Gray's Poetry (fays he) is now to be considered; and I
hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name, if I con
fefs that I contemplate it with TeG pleasure than his life.
“ His ode on Spring has something poetical, both in the lan
guage and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant, and
the thoughts have nothing new. There has of late arisen a
practice of giving to adjectives, derived from substantives, the
termination of principles ; such as the cultured plain, the dafed
bank ; but I was sorry to fee, in the lines of a scholar like Gray
the honied Spring. The morality is natural, but too ftale^
the conclusion is pretty.'
“ The poem on the Cat was doubtless by its author consider
ed as a trifle, but it is not a happy trifle. In the firft stanza
the azure flowers that blow, (hew resolutely a rhyme is some
times made when it cannot easily be found.+SclimaJthe Cat, is
called a nymph, with some violence both to language and
fe ife; but there is good use made of it when it is done; for
ot the two lines,
“ What female heart can gold despise ?
What cat's averse to fifh !"
the firft relates merely to the nymph, and the second only to
the cat. The sixth stanza contains a melancholy truth, that
a favourite has nofiend; but the Lift ends in a pointed sentence
of no relation to the purpole; if what ^liflered had been gold,
the cat would not have gone into the water; and, if sh e had
would not lets have been drowned.
" 'I he Profoefl of Eaton College suggests nothing to Gray,
which every beholder does not equally think and feel. His
supplication to father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop
or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no
better me: ns of knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health
is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word. Gray
thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from
coi nmon use: finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an
expieffion that reaches the utmost limits of our language,
Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension, by
making gales to be redolent of joy and y.uth.
"Of the Ode on Adverftty, the hint was at firft taken from
0 Diva, gratu n qu^ regie Axt um; but Gray has excelled his
original by the variety of his sentiments, and by their moral
a ßP, cation. Of this p : ece, at once poetical and rational, I
will not by flight objections violate the dignity.
My process has now brought me to the ' wonderful s^onder
of wonders, the two Sifter Odes; by which, though either
vulgar ignorance or common sense at firft univerfall, rejected
them, many have been fincc peifladed to think themselves de
lighted. lam one of those that are willing to be pleased, and
therefore would gladly find the meaning of the firft stanza of
the Pragrefs of Poetry.
" Gray seems in his rapture to confound the images of
Dreading found and running water. A flream of mufick may
be allowed ; but where does mufick, however finooth and Jirong,
after having visited the verdant vaies, rowl down the flee,
amain, so as that recks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar?
If this be said of mufick, it is nonsense ; if it be laid of water,
it is nothing to the purpose.
# " The second stanza, exhibiting Mars's car, and Jove's eagle,
is unworthy of farther notice. Criticism disdains to chafe!
school-boy to his common places.
“To the third it may likewise be objected, that it is drawn
from mythology, though such as may be more easily assimilated
to real life. Idalia's velvet-green has something of cant. Aft
epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epi
thet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Gray is too
fond of words arbitrarily compounded. Man,-twinkling was
formerly censured as not analogical; we may fay many-ftottek,
but scarcely many flatting. This stanza, however, has some
thing pleasing.
" Of the second ternary of stanzas, the firft endeavours to
tell something, and would have told it, had i not been crossed
by Hyperion: the second describes well enough the universal
prevalence of poetry ; but I am afraid that the conclusion will
not rife from the premises. The caverns ofthe Noith and the
plains of Chili are not the residence of Glory and generous
Shame. But that poetry and virtue go always together is an
opinion so pleasing, that I can forgive him who resolves to
think it true.
“ The third stanza founds big with Delphi, and Egean, and
"o', and Meander, and hallowed fountain and solemn foimd;
but in ml Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous fplendour
which we with away. His position is at last falfe ; in the time
of Dante and Petrarch, from whom he derives our firft school
.Poetry, Italy was over-run by tyrant power arid coward
vice; nor was our state much better when we firft borrowed
the Italian arts.