The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... beauty appears ........................... . Song . Thyris , a young and amorous swain ... Song . - Love and Innocence Anacreontic ..... Anacreontic A Fairy Tale , in the ancient English Style The Vigil of Venus . Written in the Time of ...
... beauty appears ........................... . Song . Thyris , a young and amorous swain ... Song . - Love and Innocence Anacreontic ..... Anacreontic A Fairy Tale , in the ancient English Style The Vigil of Venus . Written in the Time of ...
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... beauty of an epic poem consists in diction , that is , in the choice of words , and harmony of numbers : now the words are the colouring of the work , which , in the order of nature , is last to be considered . The design , the dispo ...
... beauty of an epic poem consists in diction , that is , in the choice of words , and harmony of numbers : now the words are the colouring of the work , which , in the order of nature , is last to be considered . The design , the dispo ...
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... beauty , as they are used properly or improperly ; but in strong passions always to be shunned , because passions are serious , and will admit no playing . The French have a high value for them ; and I confess , they are often what they ...
... beauty , as they are used properly or improperly ; but in strong passions always to be shunned , because passions are serious , and will admit no playing . The French have a high value for them ; and I confess , they are often what they ...
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... beauty , by the innovation of words ; in the first place , not only their beauty , but their being is lost , where they are no longer understood , which is the present case . I grant that some- thing must be lost in all transfusion ...
... beauty , by the innovation of words ; in the first place , not only their beauty , but their being is lost , where they are no longer understood , which is the present case . I grant that some- thing must be lost in all transfusion ...
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... beauty had of old ; Nor wonder if such deeds of arms were done , Inspir'd by two fair eyes , that sparkled like your If Chaucer by the best idea wrought , And poets can divine each other's thought , The fairest nymph before his eyes he ...
... beauty had of old ; Nor wonder if such deeds of arms were done , Inspir'd by two fair eyes , that sparkled like your If Chaucer by the best idea wrought , And poets can divine each other's thought , The fairest nymph before his eyes he ...
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Addison Æneid Æsop Apicius arms beauty blood breast breath bright call'd charms Chaucer Cinyras command coursers Crete cries cry'd death delight divine Earth Ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flame give glory gods grace grief ground hand happy haste heart Heaven hero HIPPOLITUS honour Ismena join'd Jove king labours light live lord lov'd Lucretius LYCON maid mighty mind Mopsus Muse never night numbers nymph o'er once Orpheus Ovid pain passion peace Phædra Pindar Pirithous plac'd plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise prince queen rage rais'd reign rest rise sacred seem'd shade shine sight sing skies soft song soul sound stood sweet sword Syphax Tatler tears tell thee Theocritus Theseus thine things thou thought trembling Twas verse Virgil virtue Whilst winds words wound youth
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...