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... performs his part , This way and that , foliciting the dart , And exercifes all his heavenly art . All foftening fimples , known of fovereign use , He preffes out , and pours their noble juice ; These first infus'd , to lenify the ...
... performs his part , This way and that , foliciting the dart , And exercifes all his heavenly art . All foftening fimples , known of fovereign use , He preffes out , and pours their noble juice ; These first infus'd , to lenify the ...
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... before the use of the loadstone , or know- ledge of the compass , I was failing in a vast ocean , without other help than the pole - ftar of the ancients , and the rules of the French ftage amongst the moderns , which are extremely ...
... before the use of the loadstone , or know- ledge of the compass , I was failing in a vast ocean , without other help than the pole - ftar of the ancients , and the rules of the French ftage amongst the moderns , which are extremely ...
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of Plato , as it is now accommodated to christian use ; for ( as Virgil gives us to understand by his example ) he is the only proper perfon , of all others , for an epick poem , who , to his natural endowments , of a large invention ...
of Plato , as it is now accommodated to christian use ; for ( as Virgil gives us to understand by his example ) he is the only proper perfon , of all others , for an epick poem , who , to his natural endowments , of a large invention ...
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... use that word in the worft fenfe ; or as the French call it , more properly , Medifance . In the criticism of spel- ling , it ought to be with i , and not withy , to dif- tinguish its true derivation from fatura , not from Sa- tyrus ...
... use that word in the worft fenfe ; or as the French call it , more properly , Medifance . In the criticism of spel- ling , it ought to be with i , and not withy , to dif- tinguish its true derivation from fatura , not from Sa- tyrus ...
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The principal bufinefs , and which is of most importance to . us , is to fhew the use , the reason , and the proof of his precepts . They who endeavour not to correct themselves , ac- cording to so exact a model , are just like the ...
The principal bufinefs , and which is of most importance to . us , is to fhew the use , the reason , and the proof of his precepts . They who endeavour not to correct themselves , ac- cording to so exact a model , are just like the ...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces ..., Volym 19, Sida 3 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: Dryden's virgil Volym 19 av The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Henry Hughs |
| Författare | Samuel Johnson |
| Bidragare | Henry Hughs |
| Utgivare | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original från | New York Public Library |
| Digitaliserad | 20 jul 2006 |
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