The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Halaman 61
... sky with blushing light , When to the garden walk she took her way , To sport and trip along in cool of day , And offer maiden vows in honour of the May . At every turn , the made a little stand , And thrust among the thorns her lily ...
... sky with blushing light , When to the garden walk she took her way , To sport and trip along in cool of day , And offer maiden vows in honour of the May . At every turn , the made a little stand , And thrust among the thorns her lily ...
Halaman 63
... sky , Or other baleful aspect , rul'd our birth , When all the friendly stars were under earth : Whate'er betides , by destiny ' tis done ; And better bear like men , than vainly seek to shun , Nor of my bonds , faid Palamon again , Nor ...
... sky , Or other baleful aspect , rul'd our birth , When all the friendly stars were under earth : Whate'er betides , by destiny ' tis done ; And better bear like men , than vainly seek to shun , Nor of my bonds , faid Palamon again , Nor ...
Halaman 90
... sky : The whole affembled troop was pleas'd as well , Extol th ' award , and on their knees they fell To bless the gracious king . The knights with leave Departing from the place , his last commands receive ; On Emily with equal ardour ...
... sky : The whole affembled troop was pleas'd as well , Extol th ' award , and on their knees they fell To bless the gracious king . The knights with leave Departing from the place , his last commands receive ; On Emily with equal ardour ...
Halaman 94
... sky . A cake of fourf lies baking on the ground , And prickly stubs , instead of trees , are found ; Or woods with knots and knares deform'd and old ; Headless the most , and hideous to behold : A rattling tempeft through the branches ...
... sky . A cake of fourf lies baking on the ground , And prickly stubs , instead of trees , are found ; Or woods with knots and knares deform'd and old ; Headless the most , and hideous to behold : A rattling tempeft through the branches ...
Halaman 103
... thee the storms of winter fly , Earth smiles with flowers renewing , laughs the sky , ky , And birds to lays of love their tuneful notes apply . H 4 For For thee the lion loaths the taste of blood , PALAMON AND ARCITE . 103.
... thee the storms of winter fly , Earth smiles with flowers renewing , laughs the sky , ky , And birds to lays of love their tuneful notes apply . H 4 For For thee the lion loaths the taste of blood , PALAMON AND ARCITE . 103.
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Arcite arms becauſe behold beſide beſt betwixt blood caſt cauſe Chanticleer Chaucer cloſe cry'd Cymon dame death defcending defire deſerve deſign deſign'd earth eaſe Emily Engliſh ev'n eyes faid fair fame fate fear feaſt fecret feem'd fide fight fince fing fire firſt flain fome foon forrow fought foul freſh fuch fuffer grace gueſt heart heaven honour houſe iſſuing juſt king knight laſt leſs liv'd loft lord loſe lov'd maid mind moſt muſt myſelf numbers o'er Ovid Palamon paſs paſs'd paſt Pirithous plac'd pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poet prepar'd preſent reaſon refolv'd reſt roſe ſaid ſame ſay ſcarce ſecond ſecure ſeen ſenſe ſet ſeveral ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhort ſhould ſkies ſky ſome ſpace ſpeak ſpoke ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtate ſteed ſtill ſtood ſtory ſuch ſweet ſword Synalepha Thebes thee theſe thoſe thou thought tranflation turn'd Twas uſe verſe Virgil whoſe wife
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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...