The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... myself to the severity of truth , and to what is becom- ing me to fay , I must not only pafs over many inftan- ces of your military skill , but also thofe of your affidu- ous diligence in the war : and of your personal bravery ...
... myself to the severity of truth , and to what is becom- ing me to fay , I must not only pafs over many inftan- ces of your military skill , but also thofe of your affidu- ous diligence in the war : and of your personal bravery ...
Halaman 11
... fucceffive generations of the virtuous ; and I repeated to myself the fame verses , which I had for- merly applied to him : " Oftendunt terris hunc tantùm fata , fata , nec ultrà effe finunt . " But to DEDICATION . IT.
... fucceffive generations of the virtuous ; and I repeated to myself the fame verses , which I had for- merly applied to him : " Oftendunt terris hunc tantùm fata , fata , nec ultrà effe finunt . " But to DEDICATION . IT.
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... myself the pleasing task of rendering it into English . And now I found , by the number of my verfes , that they began to fwell into a little volume ; which gave me an occafion of looking backward on fome which [ 13 ] PREFACE prefixed ...
... myself the pleasing task of rendering it into English . And now I found , by the number of my verfes , that they began to fwell into a little volume ; which gave me an occafion of looking backward on fome which [ 13 ] PREFACE prefixed ...
Halaman 14
... myself have heard our fa- mous Waller own , that he derived the harmony of his numbers from the Godfrey of Bulloign , which was turned into English by Mr. Fairfax . But to return : having done with Ovid for this time , it came into my ...
... myself have heard our fa- mous Waller own , that he derived the harmony of his numbers from the Godfrey of Bulloign , which was turned into English by Mr. Fairfax . But to return : having done with Ovid for this time , it came into my ...
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... myself than they allow me : because I have adventured to fum up the evidence : but the readers are the jury ; and their privilege remains en- tire to decide according to the merits of the cause , or if they please , to bring it to ...
... myself than they allow me : because I have adventured to fum up the evidence : but the readers are the jury ; and their privilege remains en- tire to decide according to the merits of the cause , or if they please , to bring it to ...
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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...