The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Томове 15–16Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... nature . For this reafon , my lord , though you have courage in an heroical degree , yet I afcribe it to you , but as your fecond attribute : mercy , beneficence , and com- paffion , claim precedence , as they are firft in the divine An ...
... nature . For this reafon , my lord , though you have courage in an heroical degree , yet I afcribe it to you , but as your fecond attribute : mercy , beneficence , and com- paffion , claim precedence , as they are firft in the divine An ...
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... nature to do good , that your life is but one continued act of placing bene fits on many , as the fun is always carrying his light to fome part or other of the world : and were it not that your reason guides you where to give , I might ...
... nature to do good , that your life is but one continued act of placing bene fits on many , as the fun is always carrying his light to fome part or other of the world : and were it not that your reason guides you where to give , I might ...
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... nature of a preface is rambling ; never wholly out of the way , nor in it . This I have learned from the practice of honeft Montaigne , and return at my pleasure to Ovid and Chaucer , of whom I have little more to fay . Both of them ...
... nature of a preface is rambling ; never wholly out of the way , nor in it . This I have learned from the practice of honeft Montaigne , and return at my pleasure to Ovid and Chaucer , of whom I have little more to fay . Both of them ...
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... nature more closely , than to use them . I have thus far , to the best of my know- ledge , been an upright judge betwixt the parties in competition , not meddling with the defign nor the dif- pofition of it ; becaufe the design was not ...
... nature more closely , than to use them . I have thus far , to the best of my know- ledge , been an upright judge betwixt the parties in competition , not meddling with the defign nor the dif- pofition of it ; becaufe the design was not ...
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... nature every where ; but was ne- ver fo bold to go beyond her : and there is a great dif- ference of being Poeta and ... natural and pleasing , though not perfect . It is true , I cannot go fo far as he who published the last edition of ...
... nature every where ; but was ne- ver fo bold to go beyond her : and there is a great dif- ference of being Poeta and ... natural and pleasing , though not perfect . It is true , I cannot go fo far as he who published the last edition of ...
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Страница 126 - Divines can say but what themselves believe ; Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative ; For, were all plain, then all sides must agree, And faith itself be lost in certainty. To live uprightly then is sure the best, To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest. The soul of Arcite went where heathens go Who better live than we, though less they know.
Страница 251 - What English readers, unacquainted with Greek or Latin, will believe me, or any other man, when we commend those authors, and confess we derive all that is pardonable in us from their fountains, if they take those to be the same poets, whom our Ogilbys have translated?
Страница 148 - Nor must we understand the language only of the poet, but his particular turn of thoughts and expression, which are the characters that distinguish, and as it were individuate, him from all other writers. When we are come thus far, it is time to look into ourselves ; to conform our genius to his, to give his thought either the same turn, if our tongue will bear it, or if not, to vary but the dress, not to alter or destroy the substance.
Страница 43 - 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. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Страница 26 - One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net great and small.
Страница 97 - There breathes not scarce a man on British ground (An isle for love and arms of old...
Страница 28 - I need say little of his parentage, life, and fortunes : they are to be found at large in all the editions of his works. He was employed abroad and favoured by Edward the Third, Richard the Second, and Henry the Fourth, and was poet, as I suppose, to all three of them.
Страница 69 - Of fortune, fate, or Providence complain? God gives us what he knows our wants require...
Страница 122 - The' attentive audience, thus his will declared: " The cause and spring of motion, from above Hung down on earth the golden chain of love: Great was the" effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent. Fire, flood, and earth, and air, by this were bound, And love, the common link, the new creation crown'd.
Страница 124 - Than just to die when I began to live ! Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave, Now warm in love, now withering in the grave ! Never, O ! never more to see the sun ! Still dark, in a damp vault, and still alone ! This fate is common ; but I lose my breath Near bliss, and yet not bless'd before my death.