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Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad Author deserves better usage than a bad Critic :
for a Writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his Readers , and he fails
merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a Critic's is to put ...
Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad Author deserves better usage than a bad Critic :
for a Writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his Readers , and he fails
merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a Critic's is to put ...
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I confess it was want of consideration that made me an author ; I writ because it
amused me ; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct as to write ;
and I published because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to
please ...
I confess it was want of consideration that made me an author ; I writ because it
amused me ; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct as to write ;
and I published because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to
please ...
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Fancy and art in gay Petronius please , The scholar's learning , with the courtier's
ease . In grave Quintilian's copious work , we find The justest rules and clearest
method join'd : Thus useful arms in magazines we place , All rang d in order ...
Fancy and art in gay Petronius please , The scholar's learning , with the courtier's
ease . In grave Quintilian's copious work , we find The justest rules and clearest
method join'd : Thus useful arms in magazines we place , All rang d in order ...
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... in ringlets curl'd diffuse The costly sweetness of Arabian dews , Nor braids of
gold the varied tresses bind , That fly disorder'd with the wanton wind : For whom
should Sappho use such arts as these ? gone , whom only she desir'd to please !
... in ringlets curl'd diffuse The costly sweetness of Arabian dews , Nor braids of
gold the varied tresses bind , That fly disorder'd with the wanton wind : For whom
should Sappho use such arts as these ? gone , whom only she desir'd to please !
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Add , that he varies every shape with ease , And tries all forms that may Pomona
please . But what should moft excite à mutual flame , Your rúral cares and
pleasures are the same . 95 To him your orchard's early fruit are due , ( A
pleasing ...
Add , that he varies every shape with ease , And tries all forms that may Pomona
please . But what should moft excite à mutual flame , Your rúral cares and
pleasures are the same . 95 To him your orchard's early fruit are due , ( A
pleasing ...
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Seite 46 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Seite 81 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Seite 145 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Seite 18 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Seite 107 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Seite 174 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Seite 101 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Seite 353 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Seite 122 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
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| Titel | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Bände 32-34 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson |
| Herausgeber | Samuel Johnson |
| Verlag | C. Bathurst, 1779 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Dez. 2005 |
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