The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... must be owned , that fuppofing verses are never fo beautiful or pleafing , yet if they con- tain any thing which shocks religion , or good - manners , they are at best , what Horace fays of good numbers without good fenfe , " Verfus ...
... must be owned , that fuppofing verses are never fo beautiful or pleafing , yet if they con- tain any thing which shocks religion , or good - manners , they are at best , what Horace fays of good numbers without good fenfe , " Verfus ...
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... must needs be a weakening of any conftitution , especially in age ; and many paufes are required for refreshment betwixt the heats ; the Iliad of itself being a third part longer than all Virgil's works together . : This is what I ...
... must needs be a weakening of any conftitution , especially in age ; and many paufes are required for refreshment betwixt the heats ; the Iliad of itself being a third part longer than all Virgil's works together . : This is what I ...
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... who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for preferring the Englishman to the Roman : yet , with 7 of their their leave , I must prefume to fay , that 24 PREFACE .
... who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for preferring the Englishman to the Roman : yet , with 7 of their their leave , I must prefume to fay , that 24 PREFACE .
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Samuel Johnson. their leave , I must prefume to fay , that the things they admire , are not only glittering trifles , and so far from being witty , that in a ferious poem they are naufeous , because they are unnatural . Would any man ...
Samuel Johnson. their leave , I must prefume to fay , that the things they admire , are not only glittering trifles , and so far from being witty , that in a ferious poem they are naufeous , because they are unnatural . Would any man ...
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... must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and for ten impreffions , which his works have had in fo many fucceffive years , yet at present a hun- dred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ...
... must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and for ten impreffions , which his works have had in fo many fucceffive years , yet at present a hun- dred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ...
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Page 43 - 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 242 - 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 93 - 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 298 - 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 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.
Page 26 - 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 66 - 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 239 - 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 32 - 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 132 - 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.