The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Sivu 7
... called you , as Claudian calls Mercury , " Numen commune , " gemino faciens commercia mundo . " The better to fatisfy this double obligation , you have early cultivated В 4 the the genius your have to arms , that when the DEDICATION . 7.
... called you , as Claudian calls Mercury , " Numen commune , " gemino faciens commercia mundo . " The better to fatisfy this double obligation , you have early cultivated В 4 the the genius your have to arms , that when the DEDICATION . 7.
Sivu 8
... better read in chronicle than any of the Roman leaders ; and that Lucullus in particular , having only the theory of war from books , was thought fit , without practice , to be fent into the field , against the moft formidable enemy of ...
... better read in chronicle than any of the Roman leaders ; and that Lucullus in particular , having only the theory of war from books , was thought fit , without practice , to be fent into the field , against the moft formidable enemy of ...
Sivu 13
... better success than a certain nobleman , who , beginning with a dog - kennel , never lived to finish . the palace he had contrived . : From tranflating the first of Homer's Iliads ( which I intended as an effay to the whole work ) I ...
... better success than a certain nobleman , who , beginning with a dog - kennel , never lived to finish . the palace he had contrived . : From tranflating the first of Homer's Iliads ( which I intended as an effay to the whole work ) I ...
Sivu 17
... better ? With this account of my present undertaking , I con- clude the first part of this discourse : in the second part , as at a second fitting , though I alter not the draught , I muft touch the fame features over again , and change ...
... better ? With this account of my present undertaking , I con- clude the first part of this discourse : in the second part , as at a second fitting , though I alter not the draught , I muft touch the fame features over again , and change ...
Sivu 24
... better light : which though I have not time to prove ; yet I appeal to the reader , and am fure he will clear me from partiality . The thoughts and words remain to be confidered in the comparison of the two poets ; and I have faved ...
... better light : which though I have not time to prove ; yet I appeal to the reader , and am fure he will clear me from partiality . The thoughts and words remain to be confidered in the comparison of the two poets ; and I have faved ...
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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...