The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Τόμοι 32-34Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Σελίδα xvi
... Critic there his fkill unfold , For Boccace thus and Chaucer tales have told . Sooth , as you only can , each different tafte , And for the future charm as in the past . Then , should the verse of every artful hand Before your numbers ...
... Critic there his fkill unfold , For Boccace thus and Chaucer tales have told . Sooth , as you only can , each different tafte , And for the future charm as in the past . Then , should the verse of every artful hand Before your numbers ...
Σελίδα xx
... critics tell , Remain unfung , who fings himself so well ? Hear then , great bard , who can alike inspire With Waller's foftness , or with Milton's fire ; Whilft I , the meaneft of the Muses ' throng , To thy juft praises tune th ...
... critics tell , Remain unfung , who fings himself so well ? Hear then , great bard , who can alike inspire With Waller's foftness , or with Milton's fire ; Whilft I , the meaneft of the Muses ' throng , To thy juft praises tune th ...
Σελίδα 4
... Criticism being by no means the universal concern of the world , but only the affair of idle men who write in their closets , and of idle men who read there . Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad Author deserves bet- ter usage than a bad ...
... Criticism being by no means the universal concern of the world , but only the affair of idle men who write in their closets , and of idle men who read there . Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad Author deserves bet- ter usage than a bad ...
Σελίδα 11
... Critics , not to take too much pains for the future to deftroy fuch things as will die of themselves ; and a Memento mori to fome of my vain contemporaries the Poets , to teach them that , when real merit is wanting , it avails nothing ...
... Critics , not to take too much pains for the future to deftroy fuch things as will die of themselves ; and a Memento mori to fome of my vain contemporaries the Poets , to teach them that , when real merit is wanting , it avails nothing ...
Σελίδα 13
... fome wife men will be of my opinion , even if I should think a part of it better spent in the enjoyments of life , than in pleasing the critics . PAS- PASTORALS , WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL . Written in PREFACE . IS.
... fome wife men will be of my opinion , even if I should think a part of it better spent in the enjoyments of life , than in pleasing the critics . PAS- PASTORALS , WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL . Written in PREFACE . IS.
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Σελίδα 52 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Σελίδα 87 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Σελίδα 151 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Σελίδα 24 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Σελίδα 113 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Σελίδα 162 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Σελίδα 3 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Σελίδα 107 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Σελίδα 359 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Σελίδα 128 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...