The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 19Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... death , lamented Pallas lay : 40 50 Acœtes watch'd the corpfe ; whofe youth deferv'd 45 The father's truft , and now the fon he ferv'd With equal faith , but lefs aufpicious care : Th ' attendants of the flain his forrow fhare . A troop ...
... death , lamented Pallas lay : 40 50 Acœtes watch'd the corpfe ; whofe youth deferv'd 45 The father's truft , and now the fon he ferv'd With equal faith , but lefs aufpicious care : Th ' attendants of the flain his forrow fhare . A troop ...
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... death disgrac'd his ancestry ; Thou shalt not blush , old man , however griev'd : Thy Pallas no dishoneft wound receiv'd . 70 75 80 He dy'd no death to make thee wish , too late , Thou hadst not liv'd to fee his fhameful fate . But what ...
... death disgrac'd his ancestry ; Thou shalt not blush , old man , however griev'd : Thy Pallas no dishoneft wound receiv'd . 70 75 80 He dy'd no death to make thee wish , too late , Thou hadst not liv'd to fee his fhameful fate . But what ...
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... death ; Nor could he war with bodies void of breath . 155 A king , they hop'd , would hear a king's request : Whofe fon he once was call'd , and once his guest . Their fuit , which was too juft to be deny'd Their 6 DRYDEN'S VIRGIL.
... death ; Nor could he war with bodies void of breath . 155 A king , they hop'd , would hear a king's request : Whofe fon he once was call'd , and once his guest . Their fuit , which was too juft to be deny'd Their 6 DRYDEN'S VIRGIL.
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... death too great , too glorious to deplore . Nor will I add new honours to thy grave ; Content with thofe the Trojan hero gave . 250 255 } 260 That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign'd ; In which the Tufcan chiefs and army join'd ...
... death too great , too glorious to deplore . Nor will I add new honours to thy grave ; Content with thofe the Trojan hero gave . 250 255 } 260 That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign'd ; In which the Tufcan chiefs and army join'd ...
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... death , lamented Pallas laya Acœtes watch'd the corpfe ; whofe youth deferv'd 45 The father's truft , and now the fon he ferv'd With equal faith , but lefs aufpicious care : Th ' attendants of the flain his forrow fhare . A troop of ...
... death , lamented Pallas laya Acœtes watch'd the corpfe ; whofe youth deferv'd 45 The father's truft , and now the fon he ferv'd With equal faith , but lefs aufpicious care : Th ' attendants of the flain his forrow fhare . A troop of ...
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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...