The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... appears in the tale of Piers Plowman yet I cannot blame him for inveigh- ing fo fharply against the vices of the clergy in his age : their pride , their ambition , their pomp , their avarice , their worldly interest , deserved the ...
... appears in the tale of Piers Plowman yet I cannot blame him for inveigh- ing fo fharply against the vices of the clergy in his age : their pride , their ambition , their pomp , their avarice , their worldly interest , deserved the ...
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... appear in the company of better thoughts . I have prefumed farther , in fome places , and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient , and had not given his thoughts their true luftre , for want of words in the be ...
... appear in the company of better thoughts . I have prefumed farther , in fome places , and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient , and had not given his thoughts their true luftre , for want of words in the be ...
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... appear with more grace in their old habit . Of this opinion was that excellent perfon , whom I mentioned , the late earl of Leicester , who valued Chaucer as much as Mr. Cowley defpifed him . My lord diffuaded me from this attempt ...
... appear with more grace in their old habit . Of this opinion was that excellent perfon , whom I mentioned , the late earl of Leicester , who valued Chaucer as much as Mr. Cowley defpifed him . My lord diffuaded me from this attempt ...
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... appears that thofe of Boc- cace were not generally of his own making , but taken from authors of former ages , and by him only model- led fo that what there was of invention in either of But Chaucer has refined them , may be judged ...
... appears that thofe of Boc- cace were not generally of his own making , but taken from authors of former ages , and by him only model- led fo that what there was of invention in either of But Chaucer has refined them , may be judged ...
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... appears that this story was written before the time of Boccace ; but the name of its author being wholly lost , Chaucer is now become an original ; and I queftion not but the poem has received many beauties by paffing through his noble ...
... appears that this story was written before the time of Boccace ; but the name of its author being wholly lost , Chaucer is now become an original ; and I queftion not but the poem has received many beauties by paffing through his noble ...
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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...