Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Τόμος 1George Bell and Sons, 1890 |
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets John Wesley Hales,Samuel Johnson Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2023 |
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Σελίδα 341 - When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat : Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Σελίδα 412 - As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above. So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And musick shall untune the sky.
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Σελίδα 84 - Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; For every author would his brother kill." * And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne.
Σελίδα 493 - 6d. each :— I.—History of the Thirty Years' War. II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbances in France preceding the Reign of Henry IV. SCHILLER'S WORKS continued. III.—Don Carlos, Mary Stuart, Maid of Orleans, Bride
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Σελίδα 383 - Thee, bold Longinus, all the nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire : An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all his laws, And is himself the great Sublime he draws.
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