The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 20Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... faults . Their grand objection is , that the Fury Difcafe is an improper machine to recite characters , and recommend the example of present writers : but though I had the authority of fome Greek and Latin Poets , upon parallel ...
... faults . Their grand objection is , that the Fury Difcafe is an improper machine to recite characters , and recommend the example of present writers : but though I had the authority of fome Greek and Latin Poets , upon parallel ...
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... fault they pretend to find in this poem , I will undertake to fhew them two . One of thefe curious perfons does me the honour to fay , he approves of the conclufion of it ; but I fuppofe it is upon no other reason , but because it is ...
... fault they pretend to find in this poem , I will undertake to fhew them two . One of thefe curious perfons does me the honour to fay , he approves of the conclufion of it ; but I fuppofe it is upon no other reason , but because it is ...
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... faults himself , ought to be lefs fevere upon the mifcarriages of others . There is a character in this trivial performance , which the town , I find , applies to a particular perfon : it is a reflection which I should be forry fhould ...
... faults himself , ought to be lefs fevere upon the mifcarriages of others . There is a character in this trivial performance , which the town , I find , applies to a particular perfon : it is a reflection which I should be forry fhould ...
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... faults , or I no faults can spy ; Thou art all beauty , or all blindness I. Critics and aged beaux of fancy chafte , Who ne'er had fire , or else whofe fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to tafte . I would a poet ...
... faults , or I no faults can spy ; Thou art all beauty , or all blindness I. Critics and aged beaux of fancy chafte , Who ne'er had fire , or else whofe fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to tafte . I would a poet ...
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... faults . There are not many authors one can fay the fame of : experience fhews us every day that there are writers ... fault the first commit ; And take off ftill the offal of their wit . 5 So fhameless , fo abandon'd , are their ways ...
... faults . There are not many authors one can fay the fame of : experience fhews us every day that there are writers ... fault the first commit ; And take off ftill the offal of their wit . 5 So fhameless , fo abandon'd , are their ways ...
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Halaman 114 - How needless if you knew us, were your fears ? Let Love have eyes, and Beauty will have ears. Our hearts are form'd, as you...
Halaman 195 - Ingenious Lister, were a picture drawn, With Cynthia's face, but with a neck like Brawn ; With wings of Turkey, and with feet of Calf, Though drawn by Kneller, it would make you laugh.
Halaman 104 - Gentiles' great apostle's name, With grace divine great Anna's seen to rise, An awful form, that glads a nation's eyes. Beneath her feet four mighty realms appear, And with due reverence pay their homage there) Britain and Ireland seem to owe her grace, And e'en wild India wears a smiling face.
Halaman 149 - Or change our natures, or reform your laws. Unhappy partner of my killing pain, Think what I feel the moment you complain. Each figh you utter wounds my tendereft part, So much my lips mifreprefent my heart.
Halaman 131 - Oile'us forc'd the Trojan maid, Yet all were punish'd for the brutal deed. A storm begins, the raging waves run high, The clouds look heavy, and benight the sky; Red sheets of light'ning o'er the seas are spread, Our tackling yields, and wrecks at last succeed.
Halaman 229 - I take imitation of an author, in their sense, to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him, on the same subject : that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country.
Halaman 192 - Valentine accosts his boy with these lines, which would draw tears from any thing that is not marble : " Hang up thy wallet on that tree, And creep thou in this hollow place with me ; Let's here repose our wearied limbs till they more wearied be ! Bor.
Halaman 164 - Clafficks, as if we were never to get higher than our Tully or our Virgil. You tantalize me only when you tell me of the edition of a book by the ingenious Dr. Lifter, which you fay is a treatife D« Candimenth et Ogfoniit yeterumt " Of the Sauces and Soups of the Ancients,
Halaman 114 - Even churches are no sanctuaries now : There, golden idols all your vows receive, She is no goddess that has nought to give.
Halaman 189 - The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, with some Letters to Dr. Lister...