The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Halaman 9
... fuch applause on a theatre which you under- stood so well . If I designed this for a poetical encomium , it were easy to enlarge on so copious a fubject ; but , confining myself to the severity of truth , and to what is becom- ing me to ...
... fuch applause on a theatre which you under- stood so well . If I designed this for a poetical encomium , it were easy to enlarge on so copious a fubject ; but , confining myself to the severity of truth , and to what is becom- ing me to ...
Halaman 24
... fuch occafions . The vulgar judges , which are nine parts in ten of all nations , who call conceits and jingles wit , who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little less than mad , for preferring ...
... fuch occafions . The vulgar judges , which are nine parts in ten of all nations , who call conceits and jingles wit , who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little less than mad , for preferring ...
Halaman 25
... fuch machines , when he was moving you to commiferate the death of Dido : he would not destroy what he was building . Chaucer makes Arcite violent in his love , and unjust in the pur- fuit of it : yet when he came to die , he made him ...
... fuch machines , when he was moving you to commiferate the death of Dido : he would not destroy what he was building . Chaucer makes Arcite violent in his love , and unjust in the pur- fuit of it : yet when he came to die , he made him ...
Halaman 31
... fuch as are more easily to be found than the good parson , such as have given the last blow to Chriftianity in this age , by a practice so con- trary to their doctrine . But this will keep cold till another time . In the mean while , I ...
... fuch as are more easily to be found than the good parson , such as have given the last blow to Chriftianity in this age , by a practice so con- trary to their doctrine . But this will keep cold till another time . In the mean while , I ...
Halaman 41
... fuch men there are who have written scurriloufly against me , without any provocation . Milbourn , who is in Orders , pretends amongst the rest this quarrel to me , that I have fallen foul on priesthood : if I have , I am only to ask ...
... fuch men there are who have written scurriloufly against me , without any provocation . Milbourn , who is in Orders , pretends amongst the rest this quarrel to me , that I have fallen foul on priesthood : if I have , I am only to ask ...
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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...