The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fhould try His caufe in arms , to conquer or to die . My right and his are in difpute : the flain 160 165 170 Fell without fault , our quarrel to maintain . In equal arms let us alone contend ; 175 And let him vanquish , whom his Fates ...
... fhould try His caufe in arms , to conquer or to die . My right and his are in difpute : the flain 160 165 170 Fell without fault , our quarrel to maintain . In equal arms let us alone contend ; 175 And let him vanquish , whom his Fates ...
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... fhould never ceafe ; But we have felt enough , to wish the peace : A land exhaufted to the last remains , Depopulated towns , and driven plains . Yes , if defire of fame , and thirst of power , A beauteous princefs , with a crown in ...
... fhould never ceafe ; But we have felt enough , to wish the peace : A land exhaufted to the last remains , Depopulated towns , and driven plains . Yes , if defire of fame , and thirst of power , A beauteous princefs , with a crown in ...
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... fhould heir my throne : +45 Oft have our augurs , in prediction skill❜d , And oft our priests , a foreign son reveal'd . Yet , won by worth , that cannot be withstood ; Brib'd by my kindness to my kindred blood , Urg'd by my wife , who ...
... fhould heir my throne : +45 Oft have our augurs , in prediction skill❜d , And oft our priests , a foreign son reveal'd . Yet , won by worth , that cannot be withstood ; Brib'd by my kindness to my kindred blood , Urg'd by my wife , who ...
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... fhould you not behold me here alone , Involv'd in empty clouds my friends bemoan ; But girt with vengeful flames , in open fight , Engag'd against my foes in mortal fight . ' Tis true , Juturna mingled in thy ftrife By my command , to ...
... fhould you not behold me here alone , Involv'd in empty clouds my friends bemoan ; But girt with vengeful flames , in open fight , Engag'd against my foes in mortal fight . ' Tis true , Juturna mingled in thy ftrife By my command , to ...
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... fhould I carry it as far as mankind would authorize me , would be little lefs than fatyr . And , indeed , a provocation is almost neceffary , in behalf of the world , that you might be induced sometimes to write ; and in relation to a ...
... fhould I carry it as far as mankind would authorize me , would be little lefs than fatyr . And , indeed , a provocation is almost neceffary , in behalf of the world , that you might be induced sometimes to write ; and in relation to a ...
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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...
Seite 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Seite 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Seite 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Seite 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Seite 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Seite 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Seite 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
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 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.