The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... minds : fome lines were noted for a stern , rigid virtue , favage , haughty , parfimonious , and unpopular : others were more fweet , and affable ; made of a more pliant pafte , humble , -courteous , and obliging ; ftudious of doing ...
... minds : fome lines were noted for a stern , rigid virtue , favage , haughty , parfimonious , and unpopular : others were more fweet , and affable ; made of a more pliant pafte , humble , -courteous , and obliging ; ftudious of doing ...
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... mind , in him who per- forms an action of mercy , which cannot fuffer the mis- fortunes of another , without redrefs ; left they should bring a kind of contagion along with them , and pollute the happiness which he enjoys . Yet Yet ...
... mind , in him who per- forms an action of mercy , which cannot fuffer the mis- fortunes of another , without redrefs ; left they should bring a kind of contagion along with them , and pollute the happiness which he enjoys . Yet Yet ...
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... mind as the work proceeds , and will have this or that convenience more , of which he had not thought when he began . So has it happen- ed to me : I have built a house , where I intended but a lodge yet with better success than a ...
... mind as the work proceeds , and will have this or that convenience more , of which he had not thought when he began . So has it happen- ed to me : I have built a house , where I intended but a lodge yet with better success than a ...
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... to return : having done with Ovid for this time , it came into my mind , that our old English poet Chaucer in many things refembled him , and that with no disadvantage on & the the fide of the modern author , as I fhall 74 PREF A CE .
... to return : having done with Ovid for this time , it came into my mind , that our old English poet Chaucer in many things refembled him , and that with no disadvantage on & the the fide of the modern author , as I fhall 74 PREF A CE .
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... count fourfcore and eight before they judged him . By the mercy of God , I am already come within twenty years of his number , a cripple in my limbs ; but what decays are are in my mind , the reader must determine . 16 PREFACE .
... count fourfcore and eight before they judged him . By the mercy of God , I am already come within twenty years of his number , a cripple in my limbs ; but what decays are are in my mind , the reader must determine . 16 PREFACE .
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Página 43 - I will only say that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage...
Página 242 - He wander'd on, unknowing where he went Lost in the wood, and all on love intent : The Day already half his race had run, And summon'd him to due repast at noon, But Love could feel no hunger but lu's own.
Página 93 - Twas all it had, for windows there were none. The gate was adamant; eternal frame! Which, hew'd by Mars himself, from Indian quarries came, The labour of a god; and all along Tough iron plates were clench 'd to make it strong.
Página 298 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd ; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest...
Página 43 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 26 - One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net great and small.
Página 66 - Till each with mortal hate his rival view'd; Now friends no more, nor walking hand in hand; But when they met, they made a surly stand; And glared like angry lions as they pass'd, And wish'd that every look might be their last.
Página 239 - This noble youth to madness loved a dame Of high degree, Honoria was her name : Fair as the fairest, but of haughty mind, And fiercer than became so soft a kind ; Proud of her birth, (for equal she had none) The rest she scorn'd; but hated him alone.
Página 32 - May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as to be a Christian, or a moral man), may I have leave, I say...
Página 132 - The attentive, audience, thus his will declared: The Cause and Spring of motion, from above, Hung down on earth the golden chain of Love: Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent.