The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... these volumes at your feet . The world is fenfible that you worthily fucceed , not only to the honours of your ancestors , but also to their virtues . The long chain of magnanimity , courage , eafinefs of accefs , and defire of doing ...
... these volumes at your feet . The world is fenfible that you worthily fucceed , not only to the honours of your ancestors , but also to their virtues . The long chain of magnanimity , courage , eafinefs of accefs , and defire of doing ...
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... these ten years past has been the scene of bat- tles and of fieges . No wonder if you performed your part with fuch applause on a theatre which you under- ftood fo well . If I defigned this for a poetical encomium , it were easy to ...
... these ten years past has been the scene of bat- tles and of fieges . No wonder if you performed your part with fuch applause on a theatre which you under- ftood fo well . If I defigned this for a poetical encomium , it were easy to ...
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... these reasons of time , and resemblance of genius in Chaucer and Boc- cace , I resolved to join them in my present work ; to which I have added fome original papers of my own ; which whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems ...
... these reasons of time , and resemblance of genius in Chaucer and Boc- cace , I resolved to join them in my present work ; to which I have added fome original papers of my own ; which whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems ...
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... these occafions the poet fhould endeavour to raise pity : but , instead of this , Ovid is tickling you to laugh . Virgil never made use of such machines , when he was moving you to commiferate the death of Dido : he would not deftroy ...
... these occafions the poet fhould endeavour to raise pity : but , instead of this , Ovid is tickling you to laugh . Virgil never made use of such machines , when he was moving you to commiferate the death of Dido : he would not deftroy ...
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... these laft appeared . Ineed fay little of his parentage , life , and fortunes they are to be found at large in all the edi- tions of his works . He was employed abroad , and favoured by Edward the Third , Richard the Se- cond , and ...
... these laft appeared . Ineed fay little of his parentage , life , and fortunes they are to be found at large in all the edi- tions of his works . He was employed abroad , and favoured by Edward the Third , Richard the Se- cond , and ...
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Page 19 - Virgil was of a quiet, sedate temper; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of fire. The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts and ornament of words; Homer was rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties, both of numbers » and of expressions, which his language and the age in which he lived allowed him.
Page 300 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd ; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest...
Page 146 - Twas at a feast, and every inn so full, That no void room in chamber, or on ground, And but one sorry bed was to be found ; And that so little it would hold but one, Though till this hour they never lay alone.
Page 26 - There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want of knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only...
Page 14 - 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.
Page 241 - This noble youth to madness loved a dame Of high degree, Honoria was her name : Fair as the fairest, but of haughty mind, And fiercer than became so soft a kind ; Proud of her birth, (for equal she had none) The rest she scorn'd; but hated him alone.
Page 43 - 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. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 27 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Page 207 - For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, A music more melodious than the spheres; For David left him, when he went to rest, His lyre; and after him he sung the best.
Page 55 - The rising nor the setting sun beheld : Of Athens he was lord ; much land he won, And added foreign countries to his crown...