The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Halaman 102
... a jubilee of feasts ; So Thefeus 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 P No harbinger was needful for a night , For 102 DRYDEN'S POEM S.
... a jubilee of feasts ; So Thefeus 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 P No harbinger was needful for a night , For 102 DRYDEN'S POEM S.
Halaman 104
... rest : Find thou the manner , and the means prepare ; Poffeffion , more than conqueft , is my care . Mars is the warrior's god ; in him it lies , On whom he favours to confer the prize ; } 1 With fmiling aspect you ferenely move In your ...
... rest : Find thou the manner , and the means prepare ; Poffeffion , more than conqueft , is my care . Mars is the warrior's god ; in him it lies , On whom he favours to confer the prize ; } 1 With fmiling aspect you ferenely move In your ...
Halaman 108
... rest , a huntress issuing from the wood , Reclining on her cornel fpear fhe ftood . ; Then gracious thus began : Dismiss thy fear , And Heaven's unchang'd decrees attentive hear : More powerful Gods have torn thee from my fide ...
... rest , a huntress issuing from the wood , Reclining on her cornel fpear fhe ftood . ; Then gracious thus began : Dismiss thy fear , And Heaven's unchang'd decrees attentive hear : More powerful Gods have torn thee from my fide ...
Halaman 111
... rest . ; The champion ceas'd ; there follow'd in the clofe A hollow groan a murmuring wind arose ; The rings of iron , that on the doors were hung , Sent out a jarring found , and harshly rung : The bolted gates flew open at the blast ...
... rest . ; The champion ceas'd ; there follow'd in the clofe A hollow groan a murmuring wind arose ; The rings of iron , that on the doors were hung , Sent out a jarring found , and harshly rung : The bolted gates flew open at the blast ...
Halaman 124
... rest , And holds for thrice three days a royal feast . None was difgrac'd ; for falling is no shame ; And cowardice alone is lofs of fame . The venturous knight is from the saddle thrown ; But ' tis the fault of fortune , not his own ...
... rest , And holds for thrice three days a royal feast . None was difgrac'd ; for falling is no shame ; And cowardice alone is lofs of fame . The venturous knight is from the saddle thrown ; But ' tis the fault of fortune , not his own ...
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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...