The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen34Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought them ( on this one occafion ) in vain , in the closets and libraries of all my acquaintance . I had ftill been in the dark , if a Gentleman had not procured me ( I fuppofe ...
... known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought them ( on this one occafion ) in vain , in the closets and libraries of all my acquaintance . I had ftill been in the dark , if a Gentleman had not procured me ( I fuppofe ...
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... known , only for fuch virtues as he had long obferved in them , and only at fuch times as others cease to praise , if not begin to calumniate them , I mean when out of power or out of fashion . A fatire , therefore , on writers fo ...
... known , only for fuch virtues as he had long obferved in them , and only at fuch times as others cease to praise , if not begin to calumniate them , I mean when out of power or out of fashion . A fatire , therefore , on writers fo ...
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... known and the most received , they are placed " in fo beautiful a light , and illustrated with fuch apt " allufions , that they have in them all the graces of " novelty ; and make the reader , who was before ac- " quainted with them ...
... known and the most received , they are placed " in fo beautiful a light , and illustrated with fuch apt " allufions , that they have in them all the graces of " novelty ; and make the reader , who was before ac- " quainted with them ...
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... known for his , fome copies being got abroad . " He defires , nevertheless , that fince the lines had " been read in his comedy to several , Mr. P. would " not deprive it of them , " & c . Surely , if we add the teftimonies of the Lord ...
... known for his , fome copies being got abroad . " He defires , nevertheless , that fince the lines had " been read in his comedy to several , Mr. P. would " not deprive it of them , " & c . Surely , if we add the teftimonies of the Lord ...
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... known to divers that these Memoirs were writ- ten at the feat of the Lord Harcourt in Oxfordshire , before that excellent person ( bishop Burnet's ) death , and many years before the appearance of that history , of which they are ...
... known to divers that these Memoirs were writ- ten at the feat of the Lord Harcourt in Oxfordshire , before that excellent person ( bishop Burnet's ) death , and many years before the appearance of that history , of which they are ...
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Página 24 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Página 172 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Página 188 - Scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to Verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it Prose again. Roman and Greek Grammarians! know your Better: Author of something yet more great than Letter; While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'er-tops them all.
Página 192 - Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce ; Or, set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Página 165 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and...
Página 183 - Winton shake through all their sons. All flesh is humbled, Westminster's bold race Shrink, and confess the genius of the place : The pale boy-senator yet tingling stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. Then thus : " Since man from beast by words is known, Words are man's province, words we teach alone.
Página 183 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Página 24 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Página 195 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Página 180 - On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. The decent Knight retir'd with sober rage, Withdrew his hand, and clos'd the pompous page.