The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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Pagina 21
... ground glitter'd where the standard flew , And the green grass was dy'd to sauguine hue . High on his pointed lance his pennon bore His Cretan fight , the conquer'd Minotaur : The soldiers shout around with generous rage , And in that ...
... ground glitter'd where the standard flew , And the green grass was dy'd to sauguine hue . High on his pointed lance his pennon bore His Cretan fight , the conquer'd Minotaur : The soldiers shout around with generous rage , And in that ...
Pagina 23
... ground , By day or night , or on whate'er pretence , His head should pay the forfeit of th ' offence . Tothis Pirithous for his friend agreed , And on his promise was the prisoner freed . Unpleas'd and pensive hence he takes his way ...
... ground , By day or night , or on whate'er pretence , His head should pay the forfeit of th ' offence . Tothis Pirithous for his friend agreed , And on his promise was the prisoner freed . Unpleas'd and pensive hence he takes his way ...
Pagina 26
... ground , and from his bosom drew A desperate sigh , accusing Heaven and Fate , And angry Juno's unrelenting hate . " Curs'd be the day when first I did appear ; Let it be blotted from the calendar , Lest it pollute the month , and ...
... ground , and from his bosom drew A desperate sigh , accusing Heaven and Fate , And angry Juno's unrelenting hate . " Curs'd be the day when first I did appear ; Let it be blotted from the calendar , Lest it pollute the month , and ...
Pagina 27
... ground had either got , As if the world depended on the spot . Fell Arcite like an angry tiger far'd , And like a lion Palamon appear'd : Or as two boars whom love to battle draws , With rising bristles , and with frothy jaws , Their ...
... ground had either got , As if the world depended on the spot . Fell Arcite like an angry tiger far'd , And like a lion Palamon appear'd : Or as two boars whom love to battle draws , With rising bristles , and with frothy jaws , Their ...
Pagina 28
... ground , The theatre of war , for champions so renown'd ; And take the patron's place of either knight , With eyes impartial to behold the fight ; And Heaven of me so judge , as I shall judge aright . If both are satisfied with this ...
... ground , The theatre of war , for champions so renown'd ; And take the patron's place of either knight , With eyes impartial to behold the fight ; And Heaven of me so judge , as I shall judge aright . If both are satisfied with this ...
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Pagina 491 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Pagina 13 - 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...
Pagina 13 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients excepting Virgil and Horace.
Pagina 14 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Pagina 176 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Pagina 528 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye : My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Pagina 9 - 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.
Pagina 160 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, ' To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of Fate, are mine.
Pagina 13 - ... the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Pagina 342 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...