The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Том 9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... side , and ambition on the other , are sometimes the unavoidable occasions of war , that courage , that magnanimity and resolution , which is born with you , cannot be too much commended : and here it grieves me that I am scanted in the ...
... side , and ambition on the other , are sometimes the unavoidable occasions of war , that courage , that magnanimity and resolution , which is born with you , cannot be too much commended : and here it grieves me that I am scanted in the ...
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... side , your grace has given yourself the education of his rival : you have studied every spot of ground in Flanders , which , for these ten years past , has been the scene of battles and of sieges . No wonder if you performed your part ...
... side , your grace has given yourself the education of his rival : you have studied every spot of ground in Flanders , which , for these ten years past , has been the scene of battles and of sieges . No wonder if you performed your part ...
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... side , I have endeavoured to choose such fables , both ancient and modern , as contain in each of them some instructive moral , which I could prove by induction , but the way is tedious , and they leap foremost into sight , without the ...
... side , I have endeavoured to choose such fables , both ancient and modern , as contain in each of them some instructive moral , which I could prove by induction , but the way is tedious , and they leap foremost into sight , without the ...
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... side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian , yet it appears , that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making , but taken from authors of former ages , and by him only modelled : so that what ...
... side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian , yet it appears , that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making , but taken from authors of former ages , and by him only modelled : so that what ...
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... side had sent Your generous lord , to guide the Theban govern- Time shall accomplish that ; and I shall see [ ment . A Palamon in him , in you an Emily . Already have the Fates your path prepar'd , And sure presage your future sway ...
... side had sent Your generous lord , to guide the Theban govern- Time shall accomplish that ; and I shall see [ ment . A Palamon in him , in you an Emily . Already have the Fates your path prepar'd , And sure presage your future sway ...
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Страница 13 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Страница 9 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Страница 176 - James, whose skill in physick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure.
Страница 18 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them.
Страница 366 - Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
Страница 365 - The seas that roll unnumber'd waves ; The wood that spreads its shady leaves ; The field whose ears conceal the grain, The yellow treasure of the plain ; All of these, and all I see, Should be sung, and sung by me : They speak their maker as they can, But want and ask the tongue of man.
Страница 364 - While through their ranks in silver pride The nether crescent seems to glide ! The slumbering breeze forgets to breathe, The lake is smooth and clear beneath, Where once again the spangled show Descends to meet our eyes below. The grounds which on the right aspire, In dimness from the view retire : The left presents a place of graves, Whose wall the silent water laves. That steeple guides thy doubtful sight Among the livid gleams of night. There pass, with melancholy state. By all the solemn heaps...
Страница 124 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Страница 54 - And forced himself to drive, but loved to draw : For Fear but freezes minds ; but Love, like heat, Exhales the soul sublime to seek her native seat.
Страница 15 - I know not what answer they could have made ; for that reason, such tale shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete, that his sense is scarce to be understood ; and you have likewise more than one example of his unequal numbers, which were mentioned before.