The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Sivu 57
... mortal blifs fhould last for length of years , She caft us headlong from our high estate , And here in hope of thy return we wait : And long have waited in the temple nigh , Built to the gracious goddefs Clemency . But reverence thou ...
... mortal blifs fhould last for length of years , She caft us headlong from our high estate , And here in hope of thy return we wait : And long have waited in the temple nigh , Built to the gracious goddefs Clemency . But reverence thou ...
Sivu 63
... mortal anguish caus'd my cry , That moment I was hurt through either eye ; Pierc'd with a random fhaft , I faint away , And perish with infenfible decay : A glance of fome new goddess gave the wound , Whom , like Acteon , unaware I ...
... mortal anguish caus'd my cry , That moment I was hurt through either eye ; Pierc'd with a random fhaft , I faint away , And perish with infenfible decay : A glance of fome new goddess gave the wound , Whom , like Acteon , unaware I ...
Sivu 67
... mortal hate his rival view'd : Now friends no more , nor walking hand in hand ; But when they met , they made a furly ftand ; And glar'd like angry lions as they pass'd , And wish'd that every look might be their last . It chanc'd at ...
... mortal hate his rival view'd : Now friends no more , nor walking hand in hand ; But when they met , they made a furly ftand ; And glar'd like angry lions as they pass'd , And wish'd that every look might be their last . It chanc'd at ...
Sivu 69
... mortal men in vain Of fortune , fate , or Providence complain ? God gives us what he knows our wants require , And better things than those which we defire : Some pray for riches ; riches they obtain ; But , watch'd by robbers , for ...
... mortal men in vain Of fortune , fate , or Providence complain ? God gives us what he knows our wants require , And better things than those which we defire : Some pray for riches ; riches they obtain ; But , watch'd by robbers , for ...
Sivu 78
... mortal fight : And lefs he knew him for his hated foe , But fear'd him as a man he did not know . But as it has been faid of ancient years , That fields are full of eyes , and woods have ears ; For this the wife are ever on their guard ...
... mortal fight : And lefs he knew him for his hated foe , But fear'd him as a man he did not know . But as it has been faid of ancient years , That fields are full of eyes , and woods have ears ; For this the wife are ever on their guard ...
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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...