The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen25Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fenfe improves . DRYDEN , Preface to Virgil's Æneis . " Your Effay on Poetry , which was published without 66 a name , and of which I was not honoured with the " confidence , I read over and over with much delight , and as much ...
... fenfe improves . DRYDEN , Preface to Virgil's Æneis . " Your Effay on Poetry , which was published without 66 a name , and of which I was not honoured with the " confidence , I read over and over with much delight , and as much ...
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... fenfe , joined with home but gentle reproofs , can work more on our writers than that unmerciful expofing of them has done . ADDISON , Spectator , N ° 253 . We have three poems in our tongue , which are of the fame nature , and each of ...
... fenfe , joined with home but gentle reproofs , can work more on our writers than that unmerciful expofing of them has done . ADDISON , Spectator , N ° 253 . We have three poems in our tongue , which are of the fame nature , and each of ...
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... fenfe , and they Were , as my love , without the least allay . As pure , alas ! but not fo fure to laft , For , like a pleafing dream , they are all past . From heaven her beauties like fierce lightnings came Which break through ...
... fenfe , and they Were , as my love , without the least allay . As pure , alas ! but not fo fure to laft , For , like a pleafing dream , they are all past . From heaven her beauties like fierce lightnings came Which break through ...
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... fenfe , Defective both in metal and in measure , A lover's fancy coins into a treasure . How vast the subject ! what a boundless store Of bright ideas , shining all before The Mufes ' fighs , forbids me to give o'er ! But the kind god ...
... fenfe , Defective both in metal and in measure , A lover's fancy coins into a treasure . How vast the subject ! what a boundless store Of bright ideas , shining all before The Mufes ' fighs , forbids me to give o'er ! But the kind god ...
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... fenfe , Reafon itfelf made no defence . What pleafing thoughts poffefs'd my mind When little favours fhew'd you kind ! And though , when coldness oft ' prevail'd , My heart would fink , and spirits fail'd , Yet willingly the yoke I bore ...
... fenfe , Reafon itfelf made no defence . What pleafing thoughts poffefs'd my mind When little favours fhew'd you kind ! And though , when coldness oft ' prevail'd , My heart would fink , and spirits fail'd , Yet willingly the yoke I bore ...
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Página 37 - Did you come here a stranger or a foe? Your partial judgment may perhaps complain, And think me barbarous for my just disdain; Ill-bred then let me be, but not unchaste Nor my clear fame with any spot defac'd. Tho...
Página 50 - Just as a changeling seems below the rest Of men, or rather is a two-legg'd beast ; So these gigantic souls amaz'd we find As much above...
Página 40 - And all in vain these superficial parts Contribute to the structure of the whole Without a genius, too, for that's the soul — A spirit which...
Página 22 - Till, like some angel from above, CORNELIA came to my relief ; And then I found the joys of love Can make amends for all the grief.
Página 43 - If yet a just coherence be not made Between each thought ; and the whole model laid So right, that ev'ry line may higher...
Página 14 - Keav'n will have, Their Fears eclipfe the Glory of -their Grave: Before thy Face they make indecent Moan, And feel a hundred Deaths in fearing one ; Thy Flame becomes unhallow'd in their Breaft, And he a Murderer who was a Prieft.
Página 25 - RAVE fops my envy now beget, Who did my pity move ; They, by the right of wanting wit, Are free from cares of love. Turks honour fools, becaufe they are By that defeft fecure From flavery and toils of war, Which all the reft endure.
Página 42 - And of a fubjeft grave, exafts the choice ; The praife of beauty, valour, wit contains ; And there too oft' defpairing love complains : In vain, alas ! for who by wit is mov'd ? That...
Página 48 - That ev'n his fools fpeak fenfe, as if pofleft, And each by infpiration breaks his jeft. If once the juftnefs of each part be loft, Well may we laugh, but at the poet's coft.
Página 7 - Your kindness, where you have once placed it, is inviolable ; and it is to that only I attribute my happiness in your love. This makes me more easily forsake an argument, on which I could otherwise delight to dwell ; I mean, your judgment in your choice of friends; because I have the honour to be one. After which I am...