The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... ship has not only all I have done , but all I ever mean to do of this kind . Not but that I may defend the attempt I have made upon Poetry , by the examples ( not to trouble you with history ) of many wise and worthy perfons of our own ...
... ship has not only all I have done , but all I ever mean to do of this kind . Not but that I may defend the attempt I have made upon Poetry , by the examples ( not to trouble you with history ) of many wise and worthy perfons of our own ...
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... ship , and all his country lost , Diffolves with fear ; and both his hands upheld , Proclaims them happy whom the Greeks had quell'd In honourable fight : our Hero fet In a small shallop , Fortune in his debt , So near a hope of crowns ...
... ship , and all his country lost , Diffolves with fear ; and both his hands upheld , Proclaims them happy whom the Greeks had quell'd In honourable fight : our Hero fet In a small shallop , Fortune in his debt , So near a hope of crowns ...
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... ship appears A friendly light , which moderates their fears : New courage from reviving hope they take , And climbing o'er the waves that taper make On which the hope of all their lives depends , As his on that fair Hero's hand extends ...
... ship appears A friendly light , which moderates their fears : New courage from reviving hope they take , And climbing o'er the waves that taper make On which the hope of all their lives depends , As his on that fair Hero's hand extends ...
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. Ships heretofore in feas like fishes sped , The mightiest ftill upon the smallest fed : Thou on the Deep imposest nobler laws ; And by that juftice haft remov'd the cause Of thofe ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. Ships heretofore in feas like fishes sped , The mightiest ftill upon the smallest fed : Thou on the Deep imposest nobler laws ; And by that juftice haft remov'd the cause Of thofe ...
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Página 232 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 231 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Página 79 - Hermes' rod, And powerful, too, as either god TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day Could we (which we never can Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb. Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate.
Página 99 - Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Página 137 - A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Página 135 - Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.
Página 87 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Página 10 - Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new.
Página 136 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.
Página 7 - Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way.