The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volym 241790 |
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... written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonson , who , by ftudying Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of some useful art , to make a monopoly of ...
... written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonson , who , by ftudying Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of some useful art , to make a monopoly of ...
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... endeavoured to exprefs after your manner , have made whole poems of mine to pass with approbation : but take your verses altogether , and they are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better I are 106 DEDICATION .
... endeavoured to exprefs after your manner , have made whole poems of mine to pass with approbation : but take your verses altogether , and they are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better I are 106 DEDICATION .
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English poets. are inimitable . If therefore I have not written better , it is because you have not written more ... writing , that we cannot fubfift DEDICATION . 107.
English poets. 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 diftinguishing 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 diftinguishing betwixt ...
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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...