The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... guest , And the fair bearer of the message bless'd ; So , when you came , with loud repeated cries , The nation took an omen from your eyes , And God advanc'd his rainbow in the skies , To fign inviolable peace restor'd ; } } } The ...
... guest , And the fair bearer of the message bless'd ; So , when you came , with loud repeated cries , The nation took an omen from your eyes , And God advanc'd his rainbow in the skies , To fign inviolable peace restor'd ; } } } The ...
Halaman 67
... guest , Who made our Arcite's freedom his request , Restor'd to liberty the captive knight , But on these hard conditions I recite : That if hereafter Arcite should be found Within the compass of Athenian ground , By day or night , or ...
... guest , Who made our Arcite's freedom his request , Restor'd to liberty the captive knight , But on these hard conditions I recite : That if hereafter Arcite should be found Within the compass of Athenian ground , By day or night , or ...
Halaman 102
... a jubilee of feasts ; So Theseus will'd , in honour of his guests ; Himself with open arms the king embrac'd , Then all the rest in their degrees were grac'd . No No harbinger was needful for a night , For every 102 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
... a jubilee of feasts ; So Theseus will'd , in honour of his guests ; Himself with open arms the king embrac'd , Then all the rest in their degrees were grac'd . No No harbinger was needful for a night , For every 102 DRYDEN'S POEMS .
Halaman 147
... arofe by break of day , And found the stall where late his fellow lay . Then of his impious host inquiring more , Was answer'd that his guest was gone before : L2 Muttering , i Muttering , he went , faid he , by THE COCK AND THE FOX . 147.
... arofe by break of day , And found the stall where late his fellow lay . Then of his impious host inquiring more , Was answer'd that his guest was gone before : L2 Muttering , i Muttering , he went , faid he , by THE COCK AND THE FOX . 147.
Halaman 159
... guest : To view his living features , does me good ; For I am your poor neighbour in the wood ; And in my cottage should be proud to fee The worthy heir of my friend's family . } But But since I speak of finging , let me say THE COCK ...
... guest : To view his living features , does me good ; For I am your poor neighbour in the wood ; And in my cottage should be proud to fee The worthy heir of my friend's family . } But But since I speak of finging , let me say THE COCK ...
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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...