The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fince you have been graciously pleafed , by your permiffion of this addrefs , to accept the tender of my duty , it is not yet too late to lay these volumes at your feet . The world is fenfible that you worthily fucceed , not only to the ...
... fince you have been graciously pleafed , by your permiffion of this addrefs , to accept the tender of my duty , it is not yet too late to lay these volumes at your feet . The world is fenfible that you worthily fucceed , not only to the ...
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... cannot fuffer the mis- fortunes of another , without redrefs ; left they should bring a kind of contagion along with them , and pollute the happiness which he enjoys . Yet Yet fince the perverfe tempers of mankind , fince op- DEDICATION .
... cannot fuffer the mis- fortunes of another , without redrefs ; left they should bring a kind of contagion along with them , and pollute the happiness which he enjoys . Yet Yet fince the perverfe tempers of mankind , fince op- DEDICATION .
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Samuel Johnson. Yet fince the perverfe tempers of mankind , fince op- preffion on one fide , and ambition on the other , are fometimes the unavoidable occafions of war ; that cou- rage , that magnanimity , and refolution , which is born ...
Samuel Johnson. Yet fince the perverfe tempers of mankind , fince op- preffion on one fide , and ambition on the other , are fometimes the unavoidable occafions of war ; that cou- rage , that magnanimity , and refolution , which is born ...
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... fince Chaucer had something of his own , as The Wife of Bath's Tale , The Cock and the Fox , which I have tranflated , and fome others , I may juftly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; fince I can remember nothing of Ovid ...
... fince Chaucer had something of his own , as The Wife of Bath's Tale , The Cock and the Fox , which I have tranflated , and fome others , I may juftly give our countryman the precedence in that part ; fince I can remember nothing of Ovid ...
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... fince they fay the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it , how can we be sure , that they will be impartial judges ? How far I may be allowed to speak my opinion in this cafe , I know not : but I am fure a difpute of ...
... fince they fay the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it , how can we be sure , that they will be impartial judges ? How far I may be allowed to speak my opinion in this cafe , I know not : but I am fure a difpute of ...
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Halaman 43 - I will only say that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage...
Halaman 242 - He wander'd on, unknowing where he went Lost in the wood, and all on love intent : The Day already half his race had run, And summon'd him to due repast at noon, But Love could feel no hunger but lu's own.
Halaman 93 - Twas all it had, for windows there were none. The gate was adamant; eternal frame! Which, hew'd by Mars himself, from Indian quarries came, The labour of a god; and all along Tough iron plates were clench 'd to make it strong.
Halaman 298 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd ; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest...
Halaman 43 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Halaman 26 - One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net great and small.
Halaman 66 - Till each with mortal hate his rival view'd; Now friends no more, nor walking hand in hand; But when they met, they made a surly stand; And glared like angry lions as they pass'd, And wish'd that every look might be their last.
Halaman 239 - This noble youth to madness loved a dame Of high degree, Honoria was her name : Fair as the fairest, but of haughty mind, And fiercer than became so soft a kind ; Proud of her birth, (for equal she had none) The rest she scorn'd; but hated him alone.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 132 - The attentive, audience, thus his will declared: The Cause and Spring of motion, from above, Hung down on earth the golden chain of Love: Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent.