The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 19Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Appear'd his plumy creft , befmear'd with blood ; His brazen buckler on the left was feen Truncheons of fhiver'd lances hung between : And on the right was plac'd his corflet , bor'd ; And to the neck was ty'd his unavailing sword . A ...
... Appear'd his plumy creft , befmear'd with blood ; His brazen buckler on the left was feen Truncheons of fhiver'd lances hung between : And on the right was plac'd his corflet , bor'd ; And to the neck was ty'd his unavailing sword . A ...
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... appear , And mourning matrons with dishevel`d hair . Soon as the prince appears , they raise a cry ; All beat their breasts , and echoes rend the sky . They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ; But when Æneas view'd the grisly ...
... appear , And mourning matrons with dishevel`d hair . Soon as the prince appears , they raise a cry ; All beat their breasts , and echoes rend the sky . They rear his drooping forehead from the ground ; But when Æneas view'd the grisly ...
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... appear Th ' unhappy captives , marching in the rear : Appointed offerings in the victor's name , To fprinkle with their blood , the funeral flame . Inferior trophies by the chiefs are born ; 115 Gauntlets and helms , their loaded hands ...
... appear Th ' unhappy captives , marching in the rear : Appointed offerings in the victor's name , To fprinkle with their blood , the funeral flame . Inferior trophies by the chiefs are born ; 115 Gauntlets and helms , their loaded hands ...
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... appears A fcene more folemn , and a pomp of tears . 306 310 395 320 326 Maids , matrons , widows , mix their common moans : Orphans their fires , and fires lament their fons . All in that univerfal forrow fhare , And curfe the caufe of ...
... appears A fcene more folemn , and a pomp of tears . 306 310 395 320 326 Maids , matrons , widows , mix their common moans : Orphans their fires , and fires lament their fons . All in that univerfal forrow fhare , And curfe the caufe of ...
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... Appear'd his plumy creft , befmear'd with blood ; His brazen buckler on the left was feen ; Truncheons of shiver'd lances hung between : And on the right was plac'd his corflet , bor'd ; And to the neck was ty'd his unavailing fword . A ...
... Appear'd his plumy creft , befmear'd with blood ; His brazen buckler on the left was feen ; Truncheons of shiver'd lances hung between : And on the right was plac'd his corflet , bor'd ; And to the neck was ty'd his unavailing fword . A ...
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Страница 195 - I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. It succeeded as I wished; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic.
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Страница 194 - The character of Zimri in my Absalom is, in my opinion, worth the whole poem: it is not bloody, but it is ridiculous enough; and he, for whom it was intended, was too witty to resent it as an injury.
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Страница 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words, which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and Spenser, and which, with all their rusticity, had somewhat...