The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 19Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... please ; Unless they choose once more to cross the feas , In fearch of feats remote of Italy ; And from unwelcome inmates fet us free . Then twice ten gallies let us build with speed , Or twice as many more , if more they need ...
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... please him less and less , Afham'd of easy fight , and cheap fuccefs . Thus half contented , anxious in his mind , The diftant cries come driving in the wind : 1 1 995 Shouts from the walls , but shouts in murmurs drown'd ; A jarring ...
... please him less and less , Afham'd of easy fight , and cheap fuccefs . Thus half contented , anxious in his mind , The diftant cries come driving in the wind : 1 1 995 Shouts from the walls , but shouts in murmurs drown'd ; A jarring ...
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... please , to give the final decision of wit ; to put your ftamp on all that ought to pafs for current ; and fet a brand of reprobation on clipt poetry and falfe coin . A fhilling , dipt in the bath , may go for gold amongst the igno ...
... please , to give the final decision of wit ; to put your ftamp on all that ought to pafs for current ; and fet a brand of reprobation on clipt poetry and falfe coin . A fhilling , dipt in the bath , may go for gold amongst the igno ...
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... please ; pol- terity , perhaps , may be more favourable to me : for intereft and paffion will lie buried in another age ; and partiality and prejudice be forgotten . I speak of my morals , which have been fufficiently afperfed ; that ...
... please ; pol- terity , perhaps , may be more favourable to me : for intereft and paffion will lie buried in another age ; and partiality and prejudice be forgotten . I speak of my morals , which have been fufficiently afperfed ; that ...
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... please themselves with reading it , without comprehending the nature of the remedies , or how to apply them to their cure . Let Horace go off with thefe encomiums , which he has fo well deferved . To conclude the contention betwixt our ...
... please themselves with reading it , without comprehending the nature of the remedies , or how to apply them to their cure . Let Horace go off with thefe encomiums , which he has fo well deferved . To conclude the contention betwixt our ...
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Seite 109 - For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other ; and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government.
Seite 275 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Seite 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Seite 195 - I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic.
Seite 282 - Form'd in the forge, the pliant brass is laid ^ On anvils ; and of head and limbs are made, > Pans, cans, and piss-pots, a whole kitchen trade.
Seite 289 - Intrust thy fortune to the powers above ; Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant What their unerring wisdom sees thee want : * In goodness, as in greatness, they excel ; Ah, that we loved ourselves but half so well...
Seite 114 - ... words may then be laudably revived, when either they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice ; and when their obscurity is taken away, by joining other words to them which clear the sense, according to the rule of Horace, for the admission of new words.
Seite 194 - The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury.
Seite 280 - Beset with thieves, and never mends his pace. Of all the vows, the first and chief request Of each, is to be richer than the rest; And yet no doubts the poor man's draught control, He dreads no poison in his homely bowl, Then fear the deadly drug, when gems divine Enchase the cup, and sparkle in the wine.
Seite 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat...