The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Sivu 8
... hand , are managed by the head . Science diftin- guishes a man of honour from one of thofe athletic brutes whom undefervedly we call heroes . Curfed be the poet , who first honoured with that name a meer Ajax , a man - killing ideot ...
... hand , are managed by the head . Science diftin- guishes a man of honour from one of thofe athletic brutes whom undefervedly we call heroes . Curfed be the poet , who first honoured with that name a meer Ajax , a man - killing ideot ...
Sivu 10
... hands of count Guifcard , who was governor of the place , to be diftri- buted among your fellow - prisoners . The French com- mander , charmed with the greatness of your foul , ac- cordingly configned it to the ufe for which it was in ...
... hands of count Guifcard , who was governor of the place , to be diftri- buted among your fellow - prisoners . The French com- mander , charmed with the greatness of your foul , ac- cordingly configned it to the ufe for which it was in ...
Sivu 19
... hand , that I have found , by trial , Homer a more pleafing task than Virgil ( though I say not the translation will be lefs laborious ) : for the Grecian is more according to my genius , than the Latin poet . In the works of the two ...
... hand , that I have found , by trial , Homer a more pleafing task than Virgil ( though I say not the translation will be lefs laborious ) : for the Grecian is more according to my genius , than the Latin poet . In the works of the two ...
Sivu 41
... hands . Befides this tale , there is another of his own invention , after the manner of the Provençals , called The Flower and the Leaf ; with which I was fo particularly pleased , both for the inven- tion and the moral , that I cannot ...
... hands . Befides this tale , there is another of his own invention , after the manner of the Provençals , called The Flower and the Leaf ; with which I was fo particularly pleased , both for the inven- tion and the moral , that I cannot ...
Sivu 42
... hands , that he writes even below Ogilby : that , you will fay , is not eafily to be done ; but what cannot Milbourn bring about ? I am fatisfied however , that while he and I live together , I shall not be thought the worst poet of the ...
... hands , that he writes even below Ogilby : that , you will fay , is not eafily to be done ; but what cannot Milbourn bring about ? I am fatisfied however , that while he and I live together , I shall not be thought the worst poet of the ...
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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...