The Works of the English Poets: CowleySamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... kind of fervitude , is incapable of producing any thing good or noble . I have feen originals , both in painting and poefy , much more beautiful than their natural ob- jects ; It does not at all jefts ; but I never PREFACE .
... kind of fervitude , is incapable of producing any thing good or noble . I have feen originals , both in painting and poefy , much more beautiful than their natural ob- jects ; It does not at all jefts ; but I never PREFACE .
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... kind of writing in verse ; and which might , perhaps , be put into the lift of Pancirolus , among the loft inventions of antiquity . This effay is but to try how it will look in an English habit : for which experiment , I have cho- fen ...
... kind of writing in verse ; and which might , perhaps , be put into the lift of Pancirolus , among the loft inventions of antiquity . This effay is but to try how it will look in an English habit : for which experiment , I have cho- fen ...
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... kind of poetry can hardly live without . UEEN of all harmonious things , Dancing words , and speaking ftrings ! What God , what Hero , wilt thou fing ? What happy man to equal glories bring ? Begin , begin thy noble choice , And let the ...
... kind of poetry can hardly live without . UEEN of all harmonious things , Dancing words , and speaking ftrings ! What God , what Hero , wilt thou fing ? What happy man to equal glories bring ? Begin , begin thy noble choice , And let the ...
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... kind pious glories do deface The old fraternal quarrel of thy race . Greatnefs of mind and fortune too Th ' Olympic trophies fhew : Both their feveral parts must do In the noble chace of fame ; This without that is blind , that without ...
... kind pious glories do deface The old fraternal quarrel of thy race . Greatnefs of mind and fortune too Th ' Olympic trophies fhew : Both their feveral parts must do In the noble chace of fame ; This without that is blind , that without ...
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... The Hebrew infants ' murder ftains them all : The kind , inftructing punishment enjoy ; [ stroy . Whom the red river cannot mend , the Red - fea fhall de- The The river yet gave one instruction more ; And , THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT . 57.
... The Hebrew infants ' murder ftains them all : The kind , inftructing punishment enjoy ; [ stroy . Whom the red river cannot mend , the Red - fea fhall de- The The river yet gave one instruction more ; And , THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT . 57.
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Страница 366 - Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Страница 279 - ... a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our...
Страница 365 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous or remarkable on the defective side.
Страница 368 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Страница 294 - Behold the original and primitive nobility of all those great persons who are too proud now not only to till the ground, but almost to tread upon it. We may talk what we please of...
Страница 367 - This only grant me ; that my means may lie . Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Страница 270 - ... with so much knowledge and love of piety and philosophy (that is, of the study of God's laws, and of his creatures) as may afford him matter enough never to be idle, though without business ; and never to be melancholy, though without sin or vanity.
Страница 279 - ... to learning and books for fresh supplies, so that the solitary life will grow indigent, and be ready to starve, without them; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters, instead of being wearied with the length of any day, we shall only complain of the shortness of our whole life. "O vita, stulto longa, sapienti brevis...
Страница 290 - Rome to be made consuls and dictators ; the reason of which I conceive to be from an evil custom, now grown as strong among us as if it were a law, which is, that no men put their children to be bred up apprentices in agriculture, as in other trades, but such who are so poor, that, when they come to be men, they have not...
Страница 231 - And one man then, by maliciously opening all the sluices that he can come at, can never be the sole author of all this (though he may be as guilty as if really he were, by intending and imagining to be so); but it is God that breaks up the flood-gates of so general a deluge, and all the art then, and industry of mankind, is not sufficient to raise up dikes and ramparts against it. In such a time it was, as this, that not all the wisdom and power of the Roman...