The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 15. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... length of time , as taking up feven years at leal ; but Ariftotle has left undecided the duration of the action ; which yet is eafily reduced into the com- pals of a year , by a narration of what preceded the re- turn turn of Palamon to ...
... length of time , as taking up feven years at leal ; but Ariftotle has left undecided the duration of the action ; which yet is eafily reduced into the com- pals of a year , by a narration of what preceded the re- turn turn of Palamon to ...
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... length have roll'd around the liquid space , At certain periods they refume their place , From the fame point of heaven their course advance , And move in measures of their former dance ; Thus , after length of ages , the returns ...
... length have roll'd around the liquid space , At certain periods they refume their place , From the fame point of heaven their course advance , And move in measures of their former dance ; Thus , after length of ages , the returns ...
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... length To tire your patience , and to waste my strength ; And trivial accidents fhall be forborn , That others may have time to take their turn ; As was at firft enjoin'd us by mine hoft : That he whofe tale is beft , and pleases moft ...
... length To tire your patience , and to waste my strength ; And trivial accidents fhall be forborn , That others may have time to take their turn ; As was at firft enjoin'd us by mine hoft : That he whofe tale is beft , and pleases moft ...
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... length of years , She caft us headlong from our high estate , And here in hope of thy return we wait : And long have waited in the temple nigh , Built to the gracious goddefs Clemency . But reverence thou the power whose name it bears ...
... length of years , She caft us headlong from our high estate , And here in hope of thy return we wait : And long have waited in the temple nigh , Built to the gracious goddefs Clemency . But reverence thou the power whose name it bears ...
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... length of hair : A ribband did the braided treffes bind , The reft was loose , and wanton'd in the wind : Aurora had but newly chas'd the night , And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light , When to the garden walk she took her way ...
... length of hair : A ribband did the braided treffes bind , The reft was loose , and wanton'd in the wind : Aurora had but newly chas'd the night , And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light , When to the garden walk she took her way ...
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Page 32 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...