The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Halaman 49
... eyes that sparkled like your own . If Chaucer by the best idea wrought , And poets can divine each other's thought , The fairest nymph before his eyes he fet ; And then the fairest was Plantagenet ; Who three contending princes made ...
... eyes that sparkled like your own . If Chaucer by the best idea wrought , And poets can divine each other's thought , The fairest nymph before his eyes he fet ; And then the fairest was Plantagenet ; Who three contending princes made ...
Halaman 51
... eyes , And God advanc'd his rainbow in the skies , To fign inviolable peace restor'd ; } } } The faints with folemn shouts proclaim'd the new accord . E2 When When at your second coming you appear , ( For TO THE DUTCHESS OF ORMOND . 51.
... eyes , And God advanc'd his rainbow in the skies , To fign inviolable peace restor'd ; } } } The faints with folemn shouts proclaim'd the new accord . E2 When When at your second coming you appear , ( For TO THE DUTCHESS OF ORMOND . 51.
Halaman 52
... eyes alone Have power to chase all poison , but their own . Now in this interval , which fate has caft Betwixt your future glories and your past , This pause of power , ' tis Ireland's hour to mourn ; While England celebrates your safe ...
... eyes alone Have power to chase all poison , but their own . Now in this interval , which fate has caft Betwixt your future glories and your past , This pause of power , ' tis Ireland's hour to mourn ; While England celebrates your safe ...
Halaman 62
... eyes the temples crown'd With golden spires , and all the hoftile ground . He sigh'd , and turn'd his eyes , because he knew ' Twas but a larger gaol he had in view : Then look'd below , and from the castle's height Beheld a nearer and ...
... eyes the temples crown'd With golden spires , and all the hoftile ground . He sigh'd , and turn'd his eyes , because he knew ' Twas but a larger gaol he had in view : Then look'd below , and from the castle's height Beheld a nearer and ...
Halaman 63
... eye ; Pierc'd with a random shaft , I faint away , And perish with insensible decay : A glance of fome new goddess gave the wound , Whom , like Acteon , unaware I found . Look Look how she walks along yon shady space , Not PALAMON AND ...
... eye ; Pierc'd with a random shaft , I faint away , And perish with insensible decay : A glance of fome new goddess gave the wound , Whom , like Acteon , unaware I found . Look Look how she walks along yon shady space , Not PALAMON AND ...
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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...