The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... ladies , when I was prefent , got up fomewhat heavily , but de- fired of the fair fpectators , that they would count fourfcore and eight before they judged him . By the mercy of God , I am already come within twenty years of his number ...
... ladies , when I was prefent , got up fomewhat heavily , but de- fired of the fair fpectators , that they would count fourfcore and eight before they judged him . By the mercy of God , I am already come within twenty years of his number ...
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... lady , a fingle combat , battles fought , and a town befieged . fay not this in derogation to Virgil , neither do I con- tradict any thing which I have formerly said in his just praife for his Episodes are almost wholly of his own ...
... lady , a fingle combat , battles fought , and a town befieged . fay not this in derogation to Virgil , neither do I con- tradict any thing which I have formerly said in his just praife for his Episodes are almost wholly of his own ...
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... lady priorefs , and the broad - speaking gap - toothed wife of Bath . But enough of this : there is such a variety of game spring- ing ... ladies of pleasure in the town . But beaux 32 PREFACE . breeding; fch as are becoming of them, and ...
... lady priorefs , and the broad - speaking gap - toothed wife of Bath . But enough of this : there is such a variety of game spring- ing ... ladies of pleasure in the town . But beaux 32 PREFACE . breeding; fch as are becoming of them, and ...
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town . But I will no more offend against good - manners : I am fenfible , as I ought to be , of the fcandal I have given by my loofe writings ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town . But I will no more offend against good - manners : I am fenfible , as I ought to be , of the fcandal I have given by my loofe writings ...
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... lady of my acquain- tance , who keeps a kind of correfpondence with fome authors of the fair fex in France , has been informed by them , that Mademoiselle de Scudery , who is as old as Sibyl , and inspired like her by the fame god of ...
... lady of my acquain- tance , who keeps a kind of correfpondence with fome authors of the fair fex in France , has been informed by them , that Mademoiselle de Scudery , who is as old as Sibyl , and inspired like her by the fame god of ...
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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...