Dedication of Examen poeticum. Discourse concerning the original and progress of satire. A parallel of poetry and painting. Dedication of the Aeneis. Translation of Virgil. Preface to the Fables. Notes. Appendices IndexClarendon Press, 1900 |
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... forced to break off abruptly , without endeavouring at a compli- ment in the close . This Miscellany is , without dispute , one of the best of the kind which has hitherto been 25 extant in our tongue . At least , as Sir Samuel Tuke has ...
... forced to break off abruptly , without endeavouring at a compli- ment in the close . This Miscellany is , without dispute , one of the best of the kind which has hitherto been 25 extant in our tongue . At least , as Sir Samuel Tuke has ...
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... forced ; and , besides , is full of conceits , points of epigram , and witti- cisms ; all which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and 20 Homer have not one of them . And those who are ...
... forced ; and , besides , is full of conceits , points of epigram , and witti- cisms ; all which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and 20 Homer have not one of them . And those who are ...
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... forced , and comes hardly from him , at an age when the soul is most pliant , and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer , though not a poet . By this time , my Lord , I doubt not but that you wonder , why I have run off ...
... forced , and comes hardly from him , at an age when the soul is most pliant , and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer , though not a poet . By this time , my Lord , I doubt not but that you wonder , why I have run off ...
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... forced to excuse him , by alleging that it was se defendendo , for fear of Nero ; and that he was commanded to write so cloudily by 10 Cornutus , in virtue of holy obedience to his master . I cannot help my own opinion ; I think ...
... forced to excuse him , by alleging that it was se defendendo , for fear of Nero ; and that he was commanded to write so cloudily by 10 Cornutus , in virtue of holy obedience to his master . I cannot help my own opinion ; I think ...
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... forced expressions , are in my translation . But more of this in its proper place , where I shall say somewhat in particular of our general per- formance , in making these two authors English . In the meantime , I think myself obliged ...
... forced expressions , are in my translation . But more of this in its proper place , where I shall say somewhat in particular of our general per- formance , in making these two authors English . In the meantime , I think myself obliged ...
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Sida 272 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Sida 247 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Sida 280 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia : and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth : and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 258 - They who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
Sida 299 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Sida 258 - Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects; as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Sida 296 - I have followed all the antique poets historicall: first Homere, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man...
Sida 258 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Sida 258 - Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her ; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta,•* if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but...
Sida 262 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.