The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... must cast in shades , left I offend your modesty , which is fo far from being oftentatious of the good you do , that it blushes even to have it known : and therefore I muft leave you to the fatisfaction and teftimony of your own ...
... must cast in shades , left I offend your modesty , which is fo far from being oftentatious of the good you do , that it blushes even to have it known : and therefore I muft leave you to the fatisfaction and teftimony of your own ...
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... must not only pafs over many inftan- ces of your military skill , but also thofe of your affidu- ous diligence in the war : and of your personal bravery , attended with an ardent thirst of honour ; a long train of generofity ...
... must not only pafs over many inftan- ces of your military skill , but also thofe of your affidu- ous diligence in the war : and of your personal bravery , attended with an ardent thirst of honour ; a long train of generofity ...
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... must needs happen . Chaucer ( as you have formerly been told by our learned Mr. Rymer ) first adorned and amplified our barren tongue from the Provencall , which was then the most polished of all the modern languages ; but this fubject ...
... must needs happen . Chaucer ( as you have formerly been told by our learned Mr. Rymer ) first adorned and amplified our barren tongue from the Provencall , which was then the most polished of all the modern languages ; but this fubject ...
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... must determine . I think myfelf as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my foul , excepting only my memory , which is not impaired to any great degree ; and if I lofe not more of it , I have no great reason to complain . What judgment I ...
... must determine . I think myfelf as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my foul , excepting only my memory , which is not impaired to any great degree ; and if I lofe not more of it , I have no great reason to complain . What judgment I ...
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... must be owned , that supposing verfes are never fo beautiful or pleasing , yet if they con- tain any thing which fhocks religion , or good - manners , they are at beft , what Horace fays of good numbers without good fenfe , " Verfus ...
... must be owned , that supposing verfes are never fo beautiful or pleasing , yet if they con- tain any thing which fhocks religion , or good - manners , they are at beft , what Horace fays of good numbers without good fenfe , " Verfus ...
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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...