The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Nide 201790 |
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Sivu 16
... himself , who is yet the standard of purity in the Italian tongue ; though many of his phrafes are become obfolete , as in procefs of time it must needs happen . Chaucer ( as you have formerly been told by our learned Mr. Rymer ) first ...
... himself , who is yet the standard of purity in the Italian tongue ; though many of his phrafes are become obfolete , as in procefs of time it must needs happen . Chaucer ( as you have formerly been told by our learned Mr. Rymer ) first ...
Sivu 27
... himself in the luxury of writing ; and perhaps knew it was a fault , but hoped the reader would not find it . For this reafon , though he muft always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and for ten ...
... himself in the luxury of writing ; and perhaps knew it was a fault , but hoped the reader would not find it . For this reafon , though he muft always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and for ten ...
Sivu 33
... spare , although he were his brother , He mote as well fay o word as another . Chrift fpake himself full broad in holy writ , And well I wote no villany is it , VOL . XX . D Eke Eke Plato faith , who so can him rede , PREFACE . 33.
... spare , although he were his brother , He mote as well fay o word as another . Chrift fpake himself full broad in holy writ , And well I wote no villany is it , VOL . XX . D Eke Eke Plato faith , who so can him rede , PREFACE . 33.
Sivu 34
... himself was of that opinion ; who , having read him over at my lord's request , declared he had no taste of him . I dare not advance my opinion against the judg- ment of fo great an author : but I think it fair , how- ever , to leave ...
... himself was of that opinion ; who , having read him over at my lord's request , declared he had no taste of him . I dare not advance my opinion against the judg- ment of fo great an author : but I think it fair , how- ever , to leave ...
Sivu 41
... himself ) and Fiametta ( who reprefents his mistress the natural daugh- ter of Robert king of Naples ) of whom these words are fpoken , " Dioneo e la Fiametta granpezza conta- rono infieme d'Arcita , e di Palamone : " by which it ...
... himself ) and Fiametta ( who reprefents his mistress the natural daugh- ter of Robert king of Naples ) of whom these words are fpoken , " Dioneo e la Fiametta granpezza conta- rono infieme d'Arcita , e di Palamone : " by which it ...
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againſt Arcite arms becauſe befides behold beſt betwixt blood breaſt caft Canterbury tales cauſe Chanticleer Chaucer cloſe Cymon dame death deferve defign'd defire earth eaſe Emily Engliſh Ev'n eyes fafe faid fair fame fate fear feas fecret feem'd fenfe fent fhall fide fight fince fing fire firft firſt flain fome foon forc'd forrow foul fovereign freſh ftill ftood fuch fuffer fure fword Goddeſs grace heart heaven himſelf honour iffuing king knight laft laſt leaſt lefs liv'd loft lord lov'd maid mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf numbers o'er Ovid Palamon Pirithous plac'd pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poet prefent prepar'd purſue reaſon refolv'd reft reſt ſaid ſay ſeen ſhall ſhe ſhould ſky ſpace ſpeak ſpoke ſtate ſtill ſtood Synalepha Thebes thee Thefeus themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought tranflated turn'd uſe Virgil whofe whoſe wife Wife of Bath
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Sivu 13 - ... he first intended. He alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened to me ; I have built a house where I intended but a lodge; yet with better success than a certain nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never lived to finish the palace he had contrived.
Sivu 19 - In the works of the two authors we may read their manners and natural inclinations, which are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, sedate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of fire. The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts, and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties both of numbers and of expressions, which his language and the age in which he lived allowed him.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 31 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Sivu 32 - ... 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.
Sivu 42 - He has taken some pains with my poetry ; but nobody will be persuaded to take the same with his. If I had taken to the church (as he affirms, but which was never in my thoughts), I should have had more...
Sivu 19 - Homer was rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties, both of numbers and of expressions, which his language, and the age in which he lived, allowed him. Homer's invention was more copious, Virgil's more confined; so that if Homer had not led the way, it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry; for nothing can be more evident, than that the Roman poem is but the second part of the Ilias; a continuation of the same story, and the persons already formed.
Sivu 121 - Bade cease the war ; pronouncing from on high, Arcite of Thebes had won the beauteous Emily. The sound of trumpets to the voice replied, And round the royal lists the heralds cried, Arcite of Thebes has won the beauteous bride.
Sivu 248 - As on this very spot of earth I fell, As Friday saw me die, so she my prey Becomes ev'n here, on this revolving day.
Sivu 298 - Had form'd the whole, and made the parts agree, That no unequal portions might be found, He moulded earth into a spacious round: Then with a breath, he gave the winds to blow; And bade the congregated waters flow.