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Beyond the goal of nature I have gone ; My Pallas late fet out , but reach'd too foon . If , from my league againft th ' Aufonian state , Amid their weapons I had found my fate , 235 240 245 ( Deferv'd ( Deferv'd from them ) then I had ...
Beyond the goal of nature I have gone ; My Pallas late fet out , but reach'd too foon . If , from my league againft th ' Aufonian state , Amid their weapons I had found my fate , 235 240 245 ( Deferv'd ( Deferv'd from them ) then I had ...
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Inclos'd with hills , the winding valley lies , By nature form'd for fraud , and fitted for furprize ; A narrow track , by human fteps untrode , 785 790 Leads , through perplexing thorns , to this obfcure abode .
Inclos'd with hills , the winding valley lies , By nature form'd for fraud , and fitted for furprize ; A narrow track , by human fteps untrode , 785 790 Leads , through perplexing thorns , to this obfcure abode .
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This is a truth fo generally acknowledged , that it needs no proof : it is of the nature of a first principle , which is received as foon as it is propofed ; and needs not the reformation which Defcartes ufed to his : for we doubt not ...
This is a truth fo generally acknowledged , that it needs no proof : it is of the nature of a first principle , which is received as foon as it is propofed ; and needs not the reformation which Defcartes ufed to his : for we doubt not ...
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Good fenfe and good nature are never separated , though the ignorant world has thought otherwife . Good nature , by which I mean beneficence and can- JI 4 dor , dor , is the product of right reafon ; which DEDICATION . 1703.
Good fenfe and good nature are never separated , though the ignorant world has thought otherwife . Good nature , by which I mean beneficence and can- JI 4 dor , dor , is the product of right reafon ; which DEDICATION . 1703.
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... which are as inborn to you , as they were to Shakespeare ; and , for aught I know , to Homer ; in either of whom we find all arts and fciences , all moral and natural philofophy , without knowing that they ever studied them .
... which are as inborn to you , as they were to Shakespeare ; and , for aught I know , to Homer ; in either of whom we find all arts and fciences , all moral and natural philofophy , without knowing that they ever studied them .
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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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