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Latius calls a council to propofe offers of peace to Æneas , which occafions great animofity betwixt Turnus and Drances in the mean time there is a fharp engage- ment of the horfe ; wherein Camilla fignalizes her- felf ; is killed and ...
Latius calls a council to propofe offers of peace to Æneas , which occafions great animofity betwixt Turnus and Drances in the mean time there is a fharp engage- ment of the horfe ; wherein Camilla fignalizes her- felf ; is killed and ...
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Fear is no more : for fierce Mezentius lies , As the firft fruits of war , a facrifice . Turnus fhall ftand extended on the pain ; And in this omen is already flain . 2 : 5 30 , Prepar'd in arms , pursue your happy chance : That none ...
Fear is no more : for fierce Mezentius lies , As the firft fruits of war , a facrifice . Turnus fhall ftand extended on the pain ; And in this omen is already flain . 2 : 5 30 , Prepar'd in arms , pursue your happy chance : That none ...
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Left me for Turnus ; Turnus then should try His caufe in arms , to conquer or to die . My right and his are in difpute : the flain 160 165 170 Fell without fault , our quarrel to maintain . In equal arms let us alone contend ; 175 And ...
Left me for Turnus ; Turnus then should try His caufe in arms , to conquer or to die . My right and his are in difpute : the flain 160 165 170 Fell without fault , our quarrel to maintain . In equal arms let us alone contend ; 175 And ...
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... and the king your friend : Let Turnus leave the realm , to your command : And feek alliance in fome other land : Build the city which you your Fates affign : 195 200 205 We fhall be proud in the great work to join .
... and the king your friend : Let Turnus leave the realm , to your command : And feek alliance in fome other land : Build the city which you your Fates affign : 195 200 205 We fhall be proud in the great work to join .
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That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign'd ; In which the Tufcan chiefs and army join'd : 250 % 255 } 260 Great fpoils , and trophies gain'd by thee , they bear : Then let thy own atchievements be thy share . Ev'n thou , O Turnus ...
That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends defign'd ; In which the Tufcan chiefs and army join'd : 250 % 255 } 260 Great fpoils , and trophies gain'd by thee , they bear : Then let thy own atchievements be thy share . Ev'n thou , O Turnus ...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volym 19 Samuel Johnson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1779 |
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Sida 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Sida 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Sida 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Sida 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Sida 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Sida 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Sida 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Sida 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Sida 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Sida 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
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| Titel | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volym 19 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson |
| Redaktör | Samuel Johnson |
| Utgivare | C. Bathurst, 1779 |
| Original från | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliserad | 20 jul 2006 |
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