The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... because I hope and pray , it may defcend to late pofte- rity and your flourishing youth , and that of your excellent Dutchefs , are happy omens of my wish . : It is obferved by Livy and by others , that fome of the nobleft Roman ...
... because I hope and pray , it may defcend to late pofte- rity and your flourishing youth , and that of your excellent Dutchefs , are happy omens of my wish . : It is obferved by Livy and by others , that fome of the nobleft Roman ...
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... because they were better read in chronicle than any of the Roman leaders ; and that Lucullus in particular , having only the theory of war from books , was thought fit , without practice , to be fent into the field , against the most ...
... because they were better read in chronicle than any of the Roman leaders ; and that Lucullus in particular , having only the theory of war from books , was thought fit , without practice , to be fent into the field , against the most ...
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... because it contains , among other things , the caufes , the beginning , and ending of the Trojan war : here I ought in reason to have stopped ; but the speeches of Ajax and Ulysses lying next in my way , I could not balk them . When I ...
... because it contains , among other things , the caufes , the beginning , and ending of the Trojan war : here I ought in reason to have stopped ; but the speeches of Ajax and Ulysses lying next in my way , I could not balk them . When I ...
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... because I have adventured to fum up the evidence : but the readers are the jury ; and their privilege remains en- tire to decide according to the merits of the caufe , or if they please , to bring , it to another hearing , before some ...
... because I have adventured to fum up the evidence : but the readers are the jury ; and their privilege remains en- tire to decide according to the merits of the caufe , or if they please , to bring , it to another hearing , before some ...
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... because he want- ed the modern art of fortifying . The thoughts remain . to be confidered : and they are to be measured only by . their propriety ; that is , as they flow more or lefs na- turally from the perfons defcribed , on fuch and ...
... because he want- ed the modern art of fortifying . The thoughts remain . to be confidered : and they are to be measured only by . their propriety ; that is , as they flow more or lefs na- turally from the perfons defcribed , on fuch and ...
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Página 32 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Página 27 - ... for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded, not from any want of knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only...
Página 252 - Twas time enough at last on Death to call, The precipice in sight : a shrub was all, That kindly stood betwixt to break the fatal fall. One maid she had...
Página 95 - 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 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 230 - The diff'rence that distinguished man from man. He claim'd no title from descent of blood, But that which made him noble, made him good. Warm'd with more particles of heavenly flame, He wing'd his upward flight, and soar'd to fame ; The rest remain'd below, a tribe without a name.
Página 26 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets...
Página 31 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Página 26 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Página 69 - Of fortune, fate, or Providence complain? God gives us what he knows our wants require, And better things than those which we desire...