The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... 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 Triton ...
... 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 Triton ...
Sivu 66
... see , Is Nature's fanction , and her first decree . Each day we break the bond of human laws For love , and vindicate the common cause . Laws for defence of civil rights are plac'd , Love throws the fences down , and makes a general ...
... see , Is Nature's fanction , and her first decree . Each day we break the bond of human laws For love , and vindicate the common cause . Laws for defence of civil rights are plac'd , Love throws the fences down , and makes a general ...
Sivu 77
... see the joyous fight ; He with his tepid rays the rose renews , And licks the drooping leaves , and dries the dews ; When Arcite left his bed , refolv'd to pay Obfervance to the month of merry May : Forth on his fiery steed betimes he ...
... see the joyous fight ; He with his tepid rays the rose renews , And licks the drooping leaves , and dries the dews ; When Arcite left his bed , refolv'd to pay Obfervance to the month of merry May : Forth on his fiery steed betimes he ...
Sivu 79
... see a Friday clear . Thus Arcite , having sung , with alter'd hue Sunk on the ground , and from his bofom drew A defperate figh , accufing heaven and fate , And angry Juno's unrelenting hate . Curs'd be the day when first I did appear ...
... see a Friday clear . Thus Arcite , having sung , with alter'd hue Sunk on the ground , and from his bofom drew A defperate figh , accufing heaven and fate , And angry Juno's unrelenting hate . Curs'd be the day when first I did appear ...
Sivu 86
... See their wide ftreaming wounds ; they neither came For I See 86 POEMS . DRYDEN'S The love of liberty with life is given, ...
... See their wide ftreaming wounds ; they neither came For I See 86 POEMS . DRYDEN'S The love of liberty with life is given, ...
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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
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 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...