The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... mind ; wrefting it from prefent oc- cafions ; and accuftoming us to a style somewhat re- moved from common ufe . But that you may not think his cafe deplorable who had made verfes ; we are told , that Tully ( the greatest Wit among the ...
... mind ; wrefting it from prefent oc- cafions ; and accuftoming us to a style somewhat re- moved from common ufe . But that you may not think his cafe deplorable who had made verfes ; we are told , that Tully ( the greatest Wit among the ...
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... what fort of laurels are like to be in request . Whilft I am talking of Verse , I find myself , I do not know how , betrayed into a great deal of profe . I in- * Mr. Dryden , tended tended no more than to put the Reader in mind PREFACE .
... what fort of laurels are like to be in request . Whilft I am talking of Verse , I find myself , I do not know how , betrayed into a great deal of profe . I in- * Mr. Dryden , tended tended no more than to put the Reader in mind PREFACE .
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... mind what refpect was due to any thing that fell from the pen of Mr. Waller . I have heard his laft printed copies , which are added in the feveral editions of his poems , very flightly spoken of ; but certainly they do not deferve it ...
... mind what refpect was due to any thing that fell from the pen of Mr. Waller . I have heard his laft printed copies , which are added in the feveral editions of his poems , very flightly spoken of ; but certainly they do not deferve it ...
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... mind , God - like , unmov'd ; and yet , like woman , kind ! Which of the ancient Poets had not brought Our Charles's pedigree from heaven ; and taught How fome bright dame , compreft by mighty Jove , Produc'd this mix'd Divinity and ...
... mind , God - like , unmov'd ; and yet , like woman , kind ! Which of the ancient Poets had not brought Our Charles's pedigree from heaven ; and taught How fome bright dame , compreft by mighty Jove , Produc'd this mix'd Divinity and ...
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... minds with his confpire to grace The Gentiles ' great Apostle ; and deface Those state - obfcuring fheds , that like a ... mind : Which , not content to be above the rage And injury of all - impairing age , In its own worth fecure , doth ...
... minds with his confpire to grace The Gentiles ' great Apostle ; and deface Those state - obfcuring fheds , that like a ... mind : Which , not content to be above the rage And injury of all - impairing age , In its own worth fecure , doth ...
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Page 232 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 231 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Page 79 - Hermes' rod, And powerful, too, as either god TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day Could we (which we never can Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb. Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate.
Page 99 - Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 137 - A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Page 135 - Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.
Page 87 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 10 - Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new.
Page 136 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.
Page 7 - Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way.