The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... 'd , fair , of noble families . Now let me speak , and you with patience hear , Things which perhaps may grate a lover's ear : 25 % 30 % 35 . 40 But But found advice , proceeding from a heart Sincerely yours ENEIS . Book XII . 47.
... 'd , fair , of noble families . Now let me speak , and you with patience hear , Things which perhaps may grate a lover's ear : 25 % 30 % 35 . 40 But But found advice , proceeding from a heart Sincerely yours ENEIS . Book XII . 47.
Halaman 86
... things to their utmost issue tend ; Push'd by the Fates to their appointed end : While leave was giv'n thee , and a lawful hour For vengeance , wrath , and unrefifted power : Tofs'd on the feas thou could'st thy foes diftress , And ...
... things to their utmost issue tend ; Push'd by the Fates to their appointed end : While leave was giv'n thee , and a lawful hour For vengeance , wrath , and unrefifted power : Tofs'd on the feas thou could'st thy foes diftress , And ...
Halaman 104
... things , which are fomewhat congenial , and of a remote kin- dred to your own conceptions : and to forgive the many failings of those , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to thofe heights that you poffefs from a happy ...
... things , which are fomewhat congenial , and of a remote kin- dred to your own conceptions : and to forgive the many failings of those , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to thofe heights that you poffefs from a happy ...
Halaman 105
... thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that , an author of your own quality , ( whofe ashes.I ...
... thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that , an author of your own quality , ( whofe ashes.I ...
Halaman 106
... thing in fatyr , wherein I have not studied your writings as the most perfect model . I have continually laid them before me ; and the greatest commendation , which my own partiality can give to my productions , is , that they are ...
... thing in fatyr , wherein I have not studied your writings as the most perfect model . I have continually laid them before me ; and the greatest commendation , which my own partiality can give to my productions , is , that they are ...
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Halaman 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Halaman 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Halaman 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Halaman 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Halaman 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Halaman 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Halaman 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Halaman 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Halaman 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Halaman 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.