The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 15Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... faces and the infcriptions of the great . Indeed it is fit for armour , to bear off infults , and preserve the wearer in the day of battle : but the danger once re- pelled , it is laid afide by the brave , as a garment too rough for ...
... faces and the infcriptions of the great . Indeed it is fit for armour , to bear off infults , and preserve the wearer in the day of battle : but the danger once re- pelled , it is laid afide by the brave , as a garment too rough for ...
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... face to view , Sure he had drawn his Emily from you ; Or had you liv'd to judge the doubtful right , Your noble Palamon had been the knight ; And conquering Thefeus from his fide had fent Your generous lord , to guide the Theban ...
... face to view , Sure he had drawn his Emily from you ; Or had you liv'd to judge the doubtful right , Your noble Palamon had been the knight ; And conquering Thefeus from his fide had fent Your generous lord , to guide the Theban ...
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... face is paradife , but fenc'd from fin : For God in either eye has plac'd a cherubin . All is your lord's alone ; ev'n abfent , he Employs the care of chafte Penelope . For him you waste in tears your widow'd hours , For him your ...
... face is paradife , but fenc'd from fin : For God in either eye has plac'd a cherubin . All is your lord's alone ; ev'n abfent , he Employs the care of chafte Penelope . For him you waste in tears your widow'd hours , For him your ...
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... face . If thou art Venus ( for thy charms confefs That face was form'd in heaven , nor art thou lefs ; Difguis'd in habit , undisguis'd in shape ) O help us captives from our chains to ' scape ; But if our doom be past in bonds to lie ...
... face . If thou art Venus ( for thy charms confefs That face was form'd in heaven , nor art thou lefs ; Difguis'd in habit , undisguis'd in shape ) O help us captives from our chains to ' scape ; But if our doom be past in bonds to lie ...
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... face may'st feed thine eyes , In prifon , no ; but blifsful paradife ! Thou daily fecft that fun of beauty shine , And lov'ft at leaft in love's extremest line . I mourn Live : 25 en ee : e eyes , 18 68 POEMS . DRYDEN'S.
... face may'st feed thine eyes , In prifon , no ; but blifsful paradife ! Thou daily fecft that fun of beauty shine , And lov'ft at leaft in love's extremest line . I mourn Live : 25 en ee : e eyes , 18 68 POEMS . DRYDEN'S.
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Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...