The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... shall require your courage and your conduct , you may exert them both to the benefit of either country . You began in the cabinet what you afterwards practised in the camp ; and thus both Lu- cullus and Cæfar ( to omit a crowd of ...
... shall require your courage and your conduct , you may exert them both to the benefit of either country . You began in the cabinet what you afterwards practised in the camp ; and thus both Lu- cullus and Cæfar ( to omit a crowd of ...
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... shall not be able to force himfelf upon me for an adverfary . I contemn him too much to en- ter into competition with him . His own tranflations of Virgil have answered his criticisms on mine . If ( as they fay , he has declared in ...
... shall not be able to force himfelf upon me for an adverfary . I contemn him too much to en- ter into competition with him . His own tranflations of Virgil have answered his criticisms on mine . If ( as they fay , he has declared in ...
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... shall see A Palamon in him , in you an Emily . Already have the Fates your path prepar'd , And fure prefage your future fway declar'd : When weftward , like the fun , you took your way , And from benighted Britain bore the day , Blue ...
... shall see A Palamon in him , in you an Emily . Already have the Fates your path prepar'd , And fure prefage your future fway declar'd : When weftward , like the fun , you took your way , And from benighted Britain bore the day , Blue ...
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... shall produce her store ; The land fhall laugh , the circling ocean fmile , And heaven's indulgence bless the holy ifle . Heaven from all ages has reserv'd for you That happy clime , which venom never knew Or if it had been there , your ...
... shall produce her store ; The land fhall laugh , the circling ocean fmile , And heaven's indulgence bless the holy ifle . Heaven from all ages has reserv'd for you That happy clime , which venom never knew Or if it had been there , your ...
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... shall bring to pass , With pens of adamant , on plates of brass ; What , is the race of human kind your care Beyond what all his fellow - creatures are ? He with the rest is liable to pain , And like the sheep , his brother - beast , is ...
... shall bring to pass , With pens of adamant , on plates of brass ; What , is the race of human kind your care Beyond what all his fellow - creatures are ? He with the rest is liable to pain , And like the sheep , his brother - beast , is ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...