The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... plain , With groans , and hands upheld , to move his mind , Befought his pity to their helpless kind ! The prince was touch'd , his tears began to flow , And , as his tender heart would break in two , He figh'd ; and could not but their ...
... plain , With groans , and hands upheld , to move his mind , Befought his pity to their helpless kind ! The prince was touch'd , his tears began to flow , And , as his tender heart would break in two , He figh'd ; and could not but their ...
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... plain His mighty camp , and , when the day return'd , The country wafted , and the hamlets burn'd , And left the pillagers , to rapine bred , Without control to ftrip and spoil the dead . There , in a heap of slain , among the rest Two ...
... plain His mighty camp , and , when the day return'd , The country wafted , and the hamlets burn'd , And left the pillagers , to rapine bred , Without control to ftrip and spoil the dead . There , in a heap of slain , among the rest Two ...
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... plain Appeach my honour , or thine own maintain , Since thou art of my council , and the friend Whofe faith I truft , and on whofe care depend : And would'st thou court my lady's love , which I Much rather than releafe would choofe to ...
... plain Appeach my honour , or thine own maintain , Since thou art of my council , and the friend Whofe faith I truft , and on whofe care depend : And would'st thou court my lady's love , which I Much rather than releafe would choofe to ...
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... plains , Turn'd only to the grove his horse's reins , The grove I nam'd before ; and , lighted there , A woodbine garland fought to crown his hair Then turn'd his face against the rising day , And rais'd his voice to welcome in the May ...
... plains , Turn'd only to the grove his horse's reins , The grove I nam'd before ; and , lighted there , A woodbine garland fought to crown his hair Then turn'd his face against the rising day , And rais'd his voice to welcome in the May ...
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... plain , The prize of valour and of love shall gain ; The vanquish'd party shall their claim release , And the long jars conclude in lasting peace . The charge be mine t ' adorn the chofen ground , The theatre of war , for champions fo ...
... plain , The prize of valour and of love shall gain ; The vanquish'd party shall their claim release , And the long jars conclude in lasting peace . The charge be mine t ' adorn the chofen ground , The theatre of war , for champions fo ...
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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...