The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... still that I meet with thofe encouragements from the public , which may enable me to procced in my undertaking with fome chearfulness . And this I dare affure the world before - hand , that I have found , by trial , Homer a more ...
... still that I meet with thofe encouragements from the public , which may enable me to procced in my undertaking with fome chearfulness . And this I dare affure the world before - hand , that I have found , by trial , Homer a more ...
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... still remaining in mankind , and even in England , though they are called by other names than thofe of Monks and Friars , and Chanons , and lady Abbesses , and Nuns : for mankind is ever the fame , and nothing loft out of nature ...
... still remaining in mankind , and even in England , though they are called by other names than thofe of Monks and Friars , and Chanons , and lady Abbesses , and Nuns : for mankind is ever the fame , and nothing loft out of nature ...
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... still had been In bondage , and had ftill Emilia feen : For though I never can her grace deserve , ' Tis recompence enough to fee and ferve . O Palamon , my kinsman and my friend , How much more happy fates thy love attend ! Thine is th ...
... still had been In bondage , and had ftill Emilia feen : For though I never can her grace deserve , ' Tis recompence enough to fee and ferve . O Palamon , my kinsman and my friend , How much more happy fates thy love attend ! Thine is th ...
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... Still will the jealous Queen purfue our race ? Cadmus is dead , the Theban city was : Yet ceases not her hate : for all who come From Cadinus are involv'd in Cadmus ' doom . I fuffer for my blood : unjust decree ! That punishes ...
... Still will the jealous Queen purfue our race ? Cadmus is dead , the Theban city was : Yet ceases not her hate : for all who come From Cadinus are involv'd in Cadmus ' doom . I fuffer for my blood : unjust decree ! That punishes ...
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... still that spotless name retain ! Frequent the forefts , thy chafte will obey , And only make the beasts of chace my prey ! The flames afcend on either altar clear , While thus the blameless maid addrefs'd her prayer . When lo ! the ...
... still that spotless name retain ! Frequent the forefts , thy chafte will obey , And only make the beasts of chace my prey ! The flames afcend on either altar clear , While thus the blameless maid addrefs'd her prayer . When lo ! the ...
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Página 32 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only.
Página 27 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Página 37 - ... when the reason ceases for which they were enacted. As for the other part of the argument, that his thoughts will lose of their original beauty by the innovation of words; in the first place, not only their beauty, but their being is lost, where they are no longer understood, which is the present case.
Página 279 - God's images; he forms and equips those ungodly man-killers, whom we poets, when we flatter them, call heroes ; a race of men who can never enjoy quiet in themselves, till they have taken it from all the world.
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 211 - ... him, too, with envious eye, And, as on Job, demanded leave to try. He took the time when Richard was deposed, And high and low with happy Harry closed.
Página 31 - Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons.
Página 309 - Because thou can'st not be My mistress, I espouse thee for my tree : Be thou the prize of honour and renown ; The deathless poet, and the poem, crown. Thou shalt the Roman festivals adorn, And, after poets, be by victors worn...
Página 25 - Dido: he would not destroy what he was building. Chaucer makes Arcite violent in his love, and unjust in the pursuit of it; yet when he came to die, he...
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...