The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... say not the translation will be lefs laborious ) : for the Grecian is more according to my genius , than the Latin poet . In the works of the two authors we may read their manners , and natural inclinations , which are wholly different ...
... say not the translation will be lefs laborious ) : for the Grecian is more according to my genius , than the Latin poet . In the works of the two authors we may read their manners , and natural inclinations , which are wholly different ...
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... say , begins the praife of Homer where he fhould have ended it . He tells us , that the first beauty of an Epic poem confifts in diction , that is , in the choice of words , and harmony of numbers : now , the words are the colouring of ...
... say , begins the praife of Homer where he fhould have ended it . He tells us , that the first beauty of an Epic poem confifts in diction , that is , in the choice of words , and harmony of numbers : now , the words are the colouring of ...
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... wit , ' who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for preferring the Englishman to the Roman : yet , with 7 their their leave , I must presume to say , that 24 PREFACE .
... wit , ' who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for preferring the Englishman to the Roman : yet , with 7 their their leave , I must presume to say , that 24 PREFACE .
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... say , that the things they admire , are not only glittering trifles , and so far from being witty , that in a ferious poem they are nauseous , because they are unnatural . Would any man , who is ready to die for love , defcribe his ...
... say , that the things they admire , are not only glittering trifles , and so far from being witty , that in a ferious poem they are nauseous , because they are unnatural . Would any man , who is ready to die for love , defcribe his ...
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... , but was rightfully in Mortimer , who had mar- ried the heir of York ; it was not to be admired , I say , if that great politician fhould be pleafed to have the greatest 1 # 3 5 greatest wit of those times in 28 PREFACE .
... , but was rightfully in Mortimer , who had mar- ried the heir of York ; it was not to be admired , I say , if that great politician fhould be pleafed to have the greatest 1 # 3 5 greatest wit of those times in 28 PREFACE .
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