The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... telling , makes the tale his own , even though the ori- ginal story had been the same . But this proves , how- ever , that Homer taught Virgil to defign : and if in- vention be the first virtue of an Epic poet , then the Latin poem can ...
... telling , makes the tale his own , even though the ori- ginal story had been the same . But this proves , how- ever , that Homer taught Virgil to defign : and if in- vention be the first virtue of an Epic poet , then the Latin poem can ...
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... , he has his action of flander ; and it is at the poet's peril , if he tranfgrefs the law . But they will tell us , that all kind of satire , though never fo fo well deferved by particular priests , yet brings the PREFACE . 29.
... , he has his action of flander ; and it is at the poet's peril , if he tranfgrefs the law . But they will tell us , that all kind of satire , though never fo fo well deferved by particular priests , yet brings the PREFACE . 29.
Halaman 31
... telling , are so fuited to their different educations , humours , and callings , that each of them would be improper in any other mouth . Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their feveral forts of gravity : their ...
... telling , are so fuited to their different educations , humours , and callings , that each of them would be improper in any other mouth . Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their feveral forts of gravity : their ...
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... telling ; though profe allows more liberty of thought , and the expreffion is more easy when unconfined by numbers . Our countryman carries weight , and yet wins the race at difadvantage . I de- fire not the reader fhould take my word ...
... telling ; though profe allows more liberty of thought , and the expreffion is more easy when unconfined by numbers . Our countryman carries weight , and yet wins the race at difadvantage . I de- fire not the reader fhould take my word ...
Halaman 53
... tell Which of the four ingredients could rebel ; And where , imprifon'd in fo fweet a cage , A foul might well be pleas'd to pass an age . And yet the fine materials made it weak : Porcelain , by being pure , is apt to break : Ev'n to ...
... tell Which of the four ingredients could rebel ; And where , imprifon'd in fo fweet a cage , A foul might well be pleas'd to pass an age . And yet the fine materials made it weak : Porcelain , by being pure , is apt to break : Ev'n 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...