The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volym 4J. and R. Tonson, 1760 |
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... Better for us , at home he had remain'd , Had it been true the madness which he feign'd , Or fo believ'd ; the less had been our shame , The lefs his counfell'd crime , which brands the Grecian name ; Nor Philoctetes had been left ...
... Better for us , at home he had remain'd , Had it been true the madness which he feign'd , Or fo believ'd ; the less had been our shame , The lefs his counfell'd crime , which brands the Grecian name ; Nor Philoctetes had been left ...
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... better can fucceed Achilles loft , Than he who gave Achilles to your hoft ? This only I request , that neither he May gain , by being what he seems to be , A ftupid thing , nor I may lose the prize , By having fenfe , which heav'n to ...
... better can fucceed Achilles loft , Than he who gave Achilles to your hoft ? This only I request , that neither he May gain , by being what he seems to be , A ftupid thing , nor I may lose the prize , By having fenfe , which heav'n to ...
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... better , dare I claim desert , Or that my fire from paricide is free ; But judge by merit betwixt him and me : The prize be to the best ; provided yet , That Ajax for a while his kin forget , And his great fire , and greater uncle's To ...
... better , dare I claim desert , Or that my fire from paricide is free ; But judge by merit betwixt him and me : The prize be to the best ; provided yet , That Ajax for a while his kin forget , And his great fire , and greater uncle's To ...
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... his shield he fears no foe to try , And better manages his blood than I : But this avails me not ; our boaster strove Not with our foes alone , but partial Jove , To fave the fleet : this I confefs is true " 18 THE SPEECHES OF.
... his shield he fears no foe to try , And better manages his blood than I : But this avails me not ; our boaster strove Not with our foes alone , but partial Jove , To fave the fleet : this I confefs is true " 18 THE SPEECHES OF.
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... better part , And more avail'd than ftrength , my valiant friend Had urg'd a better right , than Ajax can pretend ; As good at least Eurypylus may claim , And the more moderate Ajax of the name : The Cretan king , and his brave ...
... better part , And more avail'd than ftrength , my valiant friend Had urg'd a better right , than Ajax can pretend ; As good at least Eurypylus may claim , And the more moderate Ajax of the name : The Cretan king , and his brave ...
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Sida 308 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 214 - 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 78 - I take imitation of an author in their sense to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him on the same subject: that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write as he supposes that author would have done had he lived in our age, and in our country.
Sida 8 - As well he may compare the day with night. Night is indeed the province of his reign: Yet all his dark exploits no more contain, Than a spy taken, and a sleeper slain...
Sida 215 - Neither is it true, that this fineness of raillery is offensive. A witty man is tickled while he is hurt in this manner, and a fool feels it not.
Sida 168 - Spenser; he aims at the accomplishment of no one action; he raises up a hero for every one of his adventures, and endows each of them with...
Sida 215 - ... there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly was only belonging to her husband.
Sida 79 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...
Sida 44 - Not so the Golden Age, who fed on fruit, Nor durst with bloody meals their mouths pollute. Then birds in airy space might safely move. And...
Sida 290 - Provide against th' extremities of want ; But womankind, that never knows a mean, Down to the dregs their sinking fortune drain : Hourly they give, and spend, and waste, and wear : And think no pleasure can be bought too dear. There are, who in...