The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... against the moft formidable enemy of Rome . Tully indeed was called the learned conful in derifion ; but then he was not born a foldier : his head was turned another way : when he read the Tac- ticks , he was thinking on the bar , which ...
... against the moft formidable enemy of Rome . Tully indeed was called the learned conful in derifion ; but then he was not born a foldier : his head was turned another way : when he read the Tac- ticks , he was thinking on the bar , which ...
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... against the ftage ; in which he mixes truth with falfehood , and has not forgotten the old rule of calumniating ftrongly , that fomething may remain . I refume • I resume the thread of my discourse with the 18 PRE F A C E.
... against the ftage ; in which he mixes truth with falfehood , and has not forgotten the old rule of calumniating ftrongly , that fomething may remain . I refume • I resume the thread of my discourse with the 18 PRE F A C E.
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... against the vices of the clergy in his age : their pride , their ambition , their pomp , their avarice , their worldly interest , deserved the lashes which he gave them , both in that , and in most of his Canterbury tales : neither has ...
... against the vices of the clergy in his age : their pride , their ambition , their pomp , their avarice , their worldly interest , deserved the lashes which he gave them , both in that , and in most of his Canterbury tales : neither has ...
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... against good - manners : I am fenfible , as I ought to be , of the fcandal I have given by my loofe writings ; and make what reparation I am able , by this public acknowledgment . If any thing of this nature , or of profaneness , be ...
... against good - manners : I am fenfible , as I ought to be , of the fcandal I have given by my loofe writings ; and make what reparation I am able , by this public acknowledgment . If any thing of this nature , or of profaneness , be ...
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... taste of him . I dare not advance my opinion against the judg- ment of fo great an author : but I think it fair , how- ever , to leave the decifion to the public : Mr. Cowley was H was too modeft to fet up for a dictator ; 34 PREFACE .
... taste of him . I dare not advance my opinion against the judg- ment of fo great an author : but I think it fair , how- ever , to leave the decifion to the public : Mr. Cowley was H was too modeft to fet up for a dictator ; 34 PREFACE .
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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...