The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fide , and ambition on the other , are fometimes the unavoidable occafions of war ; that cou- rage , that magnanimity , and refolution , which is born with you , cannot be too much commended : and here it grieves me that I am fcanted in ...
... fide , and ambition on the other , are fometimes the unavoidable occafions of war ; that cou- rage , that magnanimity , and refolution , which is born with you , cannot be too much commended : and here it grieves me that I am fcanted in ...
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... fide , your Grace has given yourself the education of his rival : you have studied every spot of ground in Flanders , which for these ten years past has been the scene of bat- tles and of fieges . No wonder if you performed your part ...
... fide , your Grace has given yourself the education of his rival : you have studied every spot of ground in Flanders , which for these ten years past has been the scene of bat- tles and of fieges . No wonder if you performed your part ...
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... But to return : having done with Ovid for this time , it came into my mind , that our old English poct Chaucer in many things refembled him , and that with no difadvantage on : the the fide of the modern author , as I fhall 14 . PREFACE .
... But to return : having done with Ovid for this time , it came into my mind , that our old English poct Chaucer in many things refembled him , and that with no difadvantage on : the the fide of the modern author , as I fhall 14 . PREFACE .
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Samuel Johnson. the fide of the modern author , as I fhall endeavour to prove when I compare them ; and as I am , and always have been , ftudious to promote the honour of my na- tive country , so I foon refolved to put their merits to ...
Samuel Johnson. the fide of the modern author , as I fhall endeavour to prove when I compare them ; and as I am , and always have been , ftudious to promote the honour of my na- tive country , so I foon refolved to put their merits to ...
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... fide , I have endeavoured to choose fuch fables , both ancient and modern , as contain in each of them fome inftructive moral , which I could prove by in- duction , but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into fight , without ...
... fide , I have endeavoured to choose fuch fables , both ancient and modern , as contain in each of them fome inftructive moral , which I could prove by in- duction , but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into fight , without ...
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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...