The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen34Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... use the words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his fubject and his manner ) VETUSTIS DARE NOVITATEM , OBSOLETIS NITOREM , OBSCURIS LUCEM , ΓΙΑΜ , FASTIDITIS GRA- I am St. James's , Dec. 22d , 1728 . Your ...
... use the words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his fubject and his manner ) VETUSTIS DARE NOVITATEM , OBSOLETIS NITOREM , OBSCURIS LUCEM , ΓΙΑΜ , FASTIDITIS GRA- I am St. James's , Dec. 22d , 1728 . Your ...
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... uses it for the " fame reafon as fome Ladies do their commendations " of a dead beauty , who would never have had their " good word , but that a living one happened to be men- ❝tioned Dulness with transport eyes the lively Dunce ...
... uses it for the " fame reafon as fome Ladies do their commendations " of a dead beauty , who would never have had their " good word , but that a living one happened to be men- ❝tioned Dulness with transport eyes the lively Dunce ...
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... uses the fame epithet in the fame fenfe , -Auritas fidibus canoris " Ducere quercus . " And to say that walls have ears is common even to a proverb . SCRIBL . Ver . 212. And cackling fave the Monarchy of To- ries ? ] Not out of any ...
... uses the fame epithet in the fame fenfe , -Auritas fidibus canoris " Ducere quercus . " And to say that walls have ears is common even to a proverb . SCRIBL . Ver . 212. And cackling fave the Monarchy of To- ries ? ] Not out of any ...
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... use an expreffion of our Poet ) about Æf- chylus for ten years , and had received fubfcriptions for the fame , but then went about other books . The character of this tragic Poet is Fire and Boldness in a high degree , but our author ...
... use an expreffion of our Poet ) about Æf- chylus for ten years , and had received fubfcriptions for the fame , but then went about other books . The character of this tragic Poet is Fire and Boldness in a high degree , but our author ...
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... use the best word on every occafion ; the fecond , that a Critic cannot chufe but know which that is . This being granted , whenever any word doth not fully content us , we take upon us to conclude , first , that the author could never ...
... use the best word on every occafion ; the fecond , that a Critic cannot chufe but know which that is . This being granted , whenever any word doth not fully content us , we take upon us to conclude , first , that the author could never ...
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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.