The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volym 241790 |
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... lord to wait : 135 Stripp'd of his trappings , with a fullen pace He walks , and the big tears run rolling down his face . The lance of Pallas , and the crimson crest , 135 Are borne behind ; the victor feiz'd the rest . The march ...
... lord to wait : 135 Stripp'd of his trappings , with a fullen pace He walks , and the big tears run rolling down his face . The lance of Pallas , and the crimson crest , 135 Are borne behind ; the victor feiz'd the rest . The march ...
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... lord relate ; Tell him , that if I bear my bitter fate , And after Pallas ' death , live lingering on , ' Tis to behold his vengeance for my fon . I ftay for Turnus ; whofe devoted head Is owing to the living and the dead : 271 275 My ...
... lord relate ; Tell him , that if I bear my bitter fate , And after Pallas ' death , live lingering on , ' Tis to behold his vengeance for my fon . I ftay for Turnus ; whofe devoted head Is owing to the living and the dead : 271 275 My ...
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... lords it o'er th ' Aufonian land , Engage the Trojan hero hand to hand : His is the gain , our lot is but to ferve : ' Tis juft , the sway he feeks , he fhould deserve . This Drances aggravates ; and adds , with spight , His foe expects ...
... lords it o'er th ' Aufonian land , Engage the Trojan hero hand to hand : His is the gain , our lot is but to ferve : ' Tis juft , the sway he feeks , he fhould deserve . This Drances aggravates ; and adds , with spight , His foe expects ...
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... lord . Noble his mother was , and near the throne , But what his father's parentage , unknown . He rofe , and took th ' advantage of the times , To load young Turnus with invidious crimes . Such truths , O king ! faid he , your words ...
... lord . Noble his mother was , and near the throne , But what his father's parentage , unknown . He rofe , and took th ' advantage of the times , To load young Turnus with invidious crimes . Such truths , O king ! faid he , your words ...
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... lord caft backward on the ground . 950 Catillus pierc'd Iolas firft ; then drew His reeking lance , and at Herminius threw : The mighty champion of the Tufcan crew . His neck and throat unarm'd , his head was bare , But shaded with a ...
... lord caft backward on the ground . 950 Catillus pierc'd Iolas firft ; then drew His reeking lance , and at Herminius threw : The mighty champion of the Tufcan crew . His neck and throat unarm'd , his head was bare , But shaded with a ...
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Populära avsnitt
Sida 111 - For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other ; and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government.
Sida 93 - But many of his deserve not this redemption any more than the crowds of men who daily die, or are slain for sixpence in a battle, merit to be restored to life if a wish could revive them.
Sida 191 - 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 116 - ... words may then be laudably revived, when either they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice ; and when their obscurity is taken away, by joining other words to them which clear the sense, according to the rule of Horace, for the admission of new words.
Sida 202 - Donne's fatires, which abound with fo much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care of his words, and of his numbers?
Sida 347 - Dama, once a groom of low degree, Not worth a farthing, and a sot beside ; So true a rogue, for lying's sake he lied : But, with a turn, a freeman he became ; ll0 Now Marcus Dama is his worship's name.
Sida 125 - Thus, my lord, I have, as briefly as I could, given your lordship, and by you the world, a rude draught of what I have been long labouring in my imagination, and what 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.
Sida 114 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 22 - Our foes encourage, and our friends debase. Believe thy fables, and the Trojan town Triumphant stands; the Grecians are o'erthrown; Suppliant at Hector's...
Sida 126 - King Arthur conquering the Saxons, which, being farther distant in time, gives the greater scope to my invention; or that of Edward the Black Prince, in subduing Spain, and restoring it to the lawful prince, though a great tyrant, Don Pedro the cruel...