The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... far before your friends , that they were unable to fol- low , much less to fuccour you ; when you were not only dangerously , but in all appearance mortally wound- ed , ed , when in that defperate condition you were made DEDICATION .
... far before your friends , that they were unable to fol- low , much less to fuccour you ; when you were not only dangerously , but in all appearance mortally wound- ed , ed , when in that defperate condition you were made DEDICATION .
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... less behind ; and I am of the temper of moft kings , who love to be in debt ; are all for present money , no matter how they pay it afterwards : befides , the nature of a preface is rambling ; never wholly out of the way , nor in it ...
... less behind ; and I am of the temper of moft kings , who love to be in debt ; are all for present money , no matter how they pay it afterwards : befides , the nature of a preface is rambling ; never wholly out of the way , nor in it ...
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... less Deferves ; and I thy righteous doom will bless , Affur'd that what I lofe , he never fhall poffefs . To this reply'd the stern Athenian prince , And fourly fmil'd , In owning your offence , You judge yourself ; and I but keep ...
... less Deferves ; and I thy righteous doom will bless , Affur'd that what I lofe , he never fhall poffefs . To this reply'd the stern Athenian prince , And fourly fmil'd , In owning your offence , You judge yourself ; and I but keep ...
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... less of his perfection fhare . But by a long defcent , th ' etherial fire Corrupts ; and forms , the mortal part , expire : As he withdraws his virtue , fo they pafs , And the fame matter makes another mafs : This law th ' Omnifcient ...
... less of his perfection fhare . But by a long defcent , th ' etherial fire Corrupts ; and forms , the mortal part , expire : As he withdraws his virtue , fo they pafs , And the fame matter makes another mafs : This law th ' Omnifcient ...
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... less , yet years of service past From grateful fouls exact reward at last : Pity is Heaven's and your's ; nor can she find A throne fo foft as in a woman's mind . He faid ; the blush'd ; and , as o'eraw'd by might , Seem'd to give ...
... less , yet years of service past From grateful fouls exact reward at last : Pity is Heaven's and your's ; nor can she find A throne fo foft as in a woman's mind . He faid ; the blush'd ; and , as o'eraw'd by might , Seem'd to give ...
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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...