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... who think otherwise , would by the same reason prefer Lucan and Ovid to
Homer and Virgil , and Martial to all four of them . As for the mon . turn of words ,
in which Ovid particularly excels all tuin P R E F À CE . 25 their leave, I must
presume ...
... who think otherwise , would by the same reason prefer Lucan and Ovid to
Homer and Virgil , and Martial to all four of them . As for the mon . turn of words ,
in which Ovid particularly excels all tuin P R E F À CE . 25 their leave, I must
presume ...
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WH HILE Arcite lives in bliss , the story turns Where hopeless Palamon in prison
mourns . For fix long years immur'd , the captive knight Had dragg'd his chains ,
and scarcely seen the light : Loft liberty , and love , at once he bore : His prison ...
WH HILE Arcite lives in bliss , the story turns Where hopeless Palamon in prison
mourns . For fix long years immur'd , the captive knight Had dragg'd his chains ,
and scarcely seen the light : Loft liberty , and love , at once he bore : His prison ...
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Thus while his thoughts the lingering day beguile , To gentle Arcite let us turn our
stile ; Who little dreamt how nigh he was to care , Till treacherous fortune caught
him in the snare . The morning - lark , the messenger of day , Saluted in her ...
Thus while his thoughts the lingering day beguile , To gentle Arcite let us turn our
stile ; Who little dreamt how nigh he was to care , Till treacherous fortune caught
him in the snare . The morning - lark , the messenger of day , Saluted in her ...
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Grant this my first defire ; let discord cease , And make betwixt the rivals lafting
peace : Quench their hot fire , or far from me remove The flame , and turn it on
some other love : Or , if my frowning stars have so decreed , That one must be ...
Grant this my first defire ; let discord cease , And make betwixt the rivals lafting
peace : Quench their hot fire , or far from me remove The flame , and turn it on
some other love : Or , if my frowning stars have so decreed , That one must be ...
Page 112
Wide is my course , nor turn I to my place , Till length of time , and move with tardy
pace . Man feels me , when I press thetherial plains , My hand is heavy , and the
wound remains , } Mine is the shipwreck , in a watery fign Mine DRYDEN'S ...
Wide is my course , nor turn I to my place , Till length of time , and move with tardy
pace . Man feels me , when I press thetherial plains , My hand is heavy , and the
wound remains , } Mine is the shipwreck , in a watery fign Mine DRYDEN'S ...
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Page 41 - I will only say that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage...
Page 240 - He wander'd on, unknowing where he went Lost in the wood, and all on love intent : The Day already half his race had run, And summon'd him to due repast at noon, But Love could feel no hunger but lu's own.
Page 91 - Twas all it had, for windows there were none. The gate was adamant; eternal frame! Which, hew'd by Mars himself, from Indian quarries came, The labour of a god; and all along Tough iron plates were clench 'd to make it strong.
Page 296 - 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 41 - 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.
Page 24 - One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net great and small.
Page 65 - Till each with mortal hate his rival view'd; Now friends no more, nor walking hand in hand; But when they met, they made a surly stand; And glared like angry lions as they pass'd, And wish'd that every look might be their last.
Page 237 - 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 30 - May I have leave to do myself the justice (since my enemies will do me none, and are so far from granting me to be a good poet, that they will not allow me so much as to be a Christian, or a moral man), may I have leave, I say...
Page 130 - The attentive, audience, thus his will declared: The Cause and Spring of motion, from above, Hung down on earth the golden chain of Love: Great was the effect, and high was his intent, When peace among the jarring seeds he sent.
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15, Page 3 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2006 |
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