The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... field , 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 ...
... field , 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 ...
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... field is fpacious I design to sow , With oxen far unfit to draw the plow : The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience , and to waste my strength ; And trivial accidents fhall be forborn , That others may have time to ...
... field is fpacious I design to sow , With oxen far unfit to draw the plow : The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience , and to waste my strength ; And trivial accidents fhall be forborn , That others may have time to ...
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... field the god of war Was drawn triumphant on his iron car ; | Red was his fword , and fhield , and whole attire , And all the godhead feem'd to glow with fire ; ક od bort , ongs : clar'di ttire , Ev'n 7 Ev'n 58 POEM S. DRYDEN'S Denies ...
... field the god of war Was drawn triumphant on his iron car ; | Red was his fword , and fhield , and whole attire , And all the godhead feem'd to glow with fire ; ક od bort , ongs : clar'di ttire , Ev'n 7 Ev'n 58 POEM S. DRYDEN'S Denies ...
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... fields , with valiant Palamon .. From these their coftly arms the spoilers rent , And foftly both convey'd to Thefeus ' tent : Whom known of Creon's line , and cur'd with care , He to his city fent as prifoners of the war , Hopeless of ...
... fields , with valiant Palamon .. From these their coftly arms the spoilers rent , And foftly both convey'd to Thefeus ' tent : Whom known of Creon's line , and cur'd with care , He to his city fent as prifoners of the war , Hopeless of ...
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... fields are full of eyes , and woods have ears ; For this the wife are ever on their guard , For , unforeseen , they fay , is unprepar'd . Uncautious Arcite thought himself alone , And lefs than all fufpected Palamon , Who liftening ...
... fields are full of eyes , and woods have ears ; For this the wife are ever on their guard , For , unforeseen , they fay , is unprepar'd . Uncautious Arcite thought himself alone , And lefs than all fufpected Palamon , Who liftening ...
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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...