The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 44
Sivu 8
... began in the cabinet what you afterwards practised in the camp ; and thus both Lu- cullus and Cæfar ( to omit a crowd of fhining Romans ) formed themselves to war by the study of hiftory , and by the examples of the greatest captains ...
... began in the cabinet what you afterwards practised in the camp ; and thus both Lu- cullus and Cæfar ( to omit a crowd of fhining Romans ) formed themselves to war by the study of hiftory , and by the examples of the greatest captains ...
Sivu 13
... began . So has it happen- ed 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 ...
... began . So has it happen- ed 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 43
... began immediately upon the ftory ; though he had the bafenefs not to ac- knowledge his benefactor ; but instead of it , to traduce me in a libel . I fhall fay the lefs of Mr Collier , because in many things he has taxed me juftly ; and ...
... began immediately upon the ftory ; though he had the bafenefs not to ac- knowledge his benefactor ; but instead of it , to traduce me in a libel . I fhall fay the lefs of Mr Collier , because in many things he has taxed me juftly ; and ...
Sivu 57
... Began ( but fwooned first away for pain ) ; Then scarce recover'd spoke : nor envy we Thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory ; ' Tis thine , O king , th ' afflicted to redress , And fame has fill'd the world with thy fuccefs : We ...
... Began ( but fwooned first away for pain ) ; Then scarce recover'd spoke : nor envy we Thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory ; ' Tis thine , O king , th ' afflicted to redress , And fame has fill'd the world with thy fuccefs : We ...
Sivu 58
... began to flow , And , as his tender heart would break in two , He figh'd ; and could not but their fate deplore , So wretched now , fo fortunate before . Then lightly from his lofty feed he flew , And raifing one by one the fuppliant ...
... began to flow , And , as his tender heart would break in two , He figh'd ; and could not but their fate deplore , So wretched now , fo fortunate before . Then lightly from his lofty feed he flew , And raifing one by one the fuppliant ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
againſt Arcite arms becauſe befides behold beſt betwixt blood breaſt caft Canterbury tales caufe cauſe Chanticleer Chaucer cry'd Cymon dame death defcended deferve defire earth eaſe Emily ev'n eyes fafe faid fair fame fate fear feas fecret feem'd fenfe fent fhall fhould fide fight fince fing fire firft firſt flain fome foon forc'd forrow fought foul ftill ftood fuch fuffer fure fweet fword grace heart heaven himſelf honour iffuing king knight laft laſt 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 prifon purfue purſued reaſon refolv'd reft reſt Reynard ſaid ſeen ſhall ſhe ſky ſpace ſpeak ſpread ſtate ſteed ſtill ſtood Synalepha Thebes thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought tranflated turn'd Twas Virgil whofe wife Wife of Bath
Suositut otteet
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...