The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Halaman 95
... saw I there , The gore congeal'd was clotted in his hair : With eyes half clos'd , and gaping mouth he lay , And grim , as when he breath'd his fullen foul away . In midst of all the dome , misfortune fate , And gloomy discontent , and ...
... saw I there , The gore congeal'd was clotted in his hair : With eyes half clos'd , and gaping mouth he lay , And grim , as when he breath'd his fullen foul away . In midst of all the dome , misfortune fate , And gloomy discontent , and ...
Halaman 110
... saw thee wish'd thy place ! By those dear pleasures , aid my arms in fight , And make me conquer in my patron's right : For I am young , a novice in the trade , The fool of love , unpractis'd to perfuade : And want the foothing arts ...
... saw thee wish'd thy place ! By those dear pleasures , aid my arms in fight , And make me conquer in my patron's right : For I am young , a novice in the trade , The fool of love , unpractis'd to perfuade : And want the foothing arts ...
Halaman 128
... saw ; So , speechless , for a little space he lay ; Then grafp'd the hand he held , and figh'd his foul away . But whither went his foul , let fuch relate Who fearch the fecrets of the future ftate : Divines can fay but what themselves ...
... saw ; So , speechless , for a little space he lay ; Then grafp'd the hand he held , and figh'd his foul away . But whither went his foul , let fuch relate Who fearch the fecrets of the future ftate : Divines can fay but what themselves ...
Halaman 180
... Saw país in vain th ' assault , and stood from danger free . But as compaffion mov`d their gentle minds , When ceas'd the ftorm , and filent were the winds , Difpleas'd at what , not fuffering , they had seen , They went to cheer the ...
... Saw país in vain th ' assault , and stood from danger free . But as compaffion mov`d their gentle minds , When ceas'd the ftorm , and filent were the winds , Difpleas'd at what , not fuffering , they had seen , They went to cheer the ...
Halaman 184
... Saw you not her fo graceful to behold In white attire , and crown'd with radiant gold ? The fovereign lady of our land is fhe , Diana call'd , the queen of chastity : Anl , for the spotlefs name of maid she bears , That Agnus caftus in ...
... Saw you not her fo graceful to behold In white attire , and crown'd with radiant gold ? The fovereign lady of our land is fhe , Diana call'd , the queen of chastity : Anl , for the spotlefs name of maid she bears , That Agnus caftus in ...
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Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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...
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...