The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... thought not unhappily diverted by those faults in the impreffion , which hitherto have hung upon his Book , as the Turks hang old rags , or * Martial , Lib . i . Ep . 39 . B 2 fuch - like fuch - like ugly things , upon their fairest ...
... thought not unhappily diverted by those faults in the impreffion , which hitherto have hung upon his Book , as the Turks hang old rags , or * Martial , Lib . i . Ep . 39 . B 2 fuch - like fuch - like ugly things , upon their fairest ...
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... thought would fare the worfe , if thofe faults were amended : for we fee maimed ftatues fell better than whole ones ; and clipped and washed money goes about , when the entire and weighty lies hoarded up . These are the reafons which ...
... thought would fare the worfe , if thofe faults were amended : for we fee maimed ftatues fell better than whole ones ; and clipped and washed money goes about , when the entire and weighty lies hoarded up . These are the reafons which ...
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... these faults ; brought in more polysyllables , and smoo- ther measures ; bound up his thoughts better ; and in a cadence more agreeable to the nature of the Verfe He wrote : wrote in fo that where - ever the natural PREFACE .
... these faults ; brought in more polysyllables , and smoo- ther measures ; bound up his thoughts better ; and in a cadence more agreeable to the nature of the Verfe He wrote : wrote in fo that where - ever the natural PREFACE .
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... thought for times at fome distance ; the present age is a little too warlike ; it may perhaps furnish out matter for a good Poem in the next , but it will hardly encourage one now : without pro- phefying , a man may eafily know what ...
... thought for times at fome distance ; the present age is a little too warlike ; it may perhaps furnish out matter for a good Poem in the next , but it will hardly encourage one now : without pro- phefying , a man may eafily know what ...
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... and Lucretius . Exact writers drefs up their * Virg . Æn . vi . 304 . " The Maid's Tragedy ; " which does not come within the plan of the prefent publication . thoughts thoughts fo very well always , that , when they 12 PREFACE .
... and Lucretius . Exact writers drefs up their * Virg . Æn . vi . 304 . " The Maid's Tragedy ; " which does not come within the plan of the prefent publication . thoughts thoughts fo very well always , that , when they 12 PREFACE .
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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.