The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... light to fome part or other of the world : and were it not that your reafon guides you where to give , I might almost fay that you could not help beftowing more , than is confifting with the fortune of a private man , or with the will ...
... light to fome part or other of the world : and were it not that your reafon guides you where to give , I might almost fay that you could not help beftowing more , than is confifting with the fortune of a private man , or with the will ...
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... light , and dressed in the fame English habit , story to be compared with story , a certain judgment may be made betwixt them , by the reader , without obtruding my opinion on him or if I feem partial to my countryman , and predeceffor ...
... light , and dressed in the fame English habit , story to be compared with story , a certain judgment may be made betwixt them , by the reader , without obtruding my opinion on him or if I feem partial to my countryman , and predeceffor ...
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... light : which though I have not time to prove ; yet I appeal to the reader , and am fure he will clear me from partiality . The thoughts and words remain to be confidered in the comparison of the two poets ; and I have faved myself one ...
... light : which though I have not time to prove ; yet I appeal to the reader , and am fure he will clear me from partiality . The thoughts and words remain to be confidered in the comparison of the two poets ; and I have faved myself one ...
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... light , for every man to judge betwixt them . I tranflated Chaucer first , and , amongst the reft , pitched on the Wife of Bath's tale ; not daring , as I have said , to adventure on her prologue , because it is too licen- tious : there ...
... light , for every man to judge betwixt them . I tranflated Chaucer first , and , amongst the reft , pitched on the Wife of Bath's tale ; not daring , as I have said , to adventure on her prologue , because it is too licen- tious : there ...
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... light . The process of the war I need not tell , How Thefeus conquer'd , and how Creon fell : Or after , how by storm the walls were won , Or how the victor fack'd and burn'd the town : How to the ladies he reftor'd again The bodies of ...
... light . The process of the war I need not tell , How Thefeus conquer'd , and how Creon fell : Or after , how by storm the walls were won , Or how the victor fack'd and burn'd the town : How to the ladies he reftor'd again The bodies 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...