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... written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonfon , who , by ftudying Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a monopoly of ...
... written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonfon , who , by ftudying Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a monopoly of ...
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... graces which I have endeavoured to exprefs after your manner , have made whole poems of mine to pafs with approbation : but take your verses altogether , and they are are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better 106 DEDICATIO N.
... graces which I have endeavoured to exprefs after your manner , have made whole poems of mine to pafs with approbation : but take your verses altogether , and they are are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better 106 DEDICATIO N.
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Samuel Johnson. are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better , it is because you have not written more ... writing , that we cannot fubfift DEDICATION . 107.
Samuel Johnson. are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better , it is because you have not written more ... writing , that we cannot fubfift DEDICATION . 107.
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... writing any more . I complain not of their lampoons and libels , though I have been the public mark for many years . I am vin- dictive enough to have repelled force by force , if I could imagine that any of them had ever reached me ...
... writing any more . I complain not of their lampoons and libels , though I have been the public mark for many years . I am vin- dictive enough to have repelled force by force , if I could imagine that any of them had ever reached me ...
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... written by divers hands , whereof your Lordship was only part , I could feparate your gold from their copper : and though I could not give back to every author his own brafs ( for there is not the fame rule for distinguishing betwixt ...
... written by divers hands , whereof your Lordship was only part , I could feparate your gold from their copper : and though I could not give back to every author his own brafs ( for there is not the fame rule for distinguishing betwixt ...
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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.