The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 31804 |
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... Italy . His native foil was the four parts o ' th ' earth ; All Europe was too narrow for his birth . A young apoftle ; and with reverence may I fpeak it , infpir'd with gift of tongues , as they . Nature gave him a child , what men in ...
... Italy . His native foil was the four parts o ' th ' earth ; All Europe was too narrow for his birth . A young apoftle ; and with reverence may I fpeak it , infpir'd with gift of tongues , as they . Nature gave him a child , what men in ...
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... Italian in every line , with the Spaniard promifcuously , with the French alternately ; as those who have read the Alarique , the Pucelle , or any of their later poems , will agree with me . And befides this , they write in Alexandrins ...
... Italian in every line , with the Spaniard promifcuously , with the French alternately ; as those who have read the Alarique , the Pucelle , or any of their later poems , will agree with me . And befides this , they write in Alexandrins ...
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... Italian painters do , when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula ; though they have not feen the man , they can help their imagination by a ftatue of him , and find out the colouring from Suetonius and Tacitus . Truth is , you might have ...
... Italian painters do , when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula ; though they have not feen the man , they can help their imagination by a ftatue of him , and find out the colouring from Suetonius and Tacitus . Truth is , you might have ...
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... Italians be Vain authors of Falfe glittering poetry . All ought to aim at fenfe ; but most in vain Strive the hard pafs and flippery path to gain : You drown , if to the right or left you stray ; Reafon to go has often but one way ...
... Italians be Vain authors of Falfe glittering poetry . All ought to aim at fenfe ; but most in vain Strive the hard pafs and flippery path to gain : You drown , if to the right or left you stray ; Reafon to go has often but one way ...
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... Italians firft were priz'd , Our ancient authors knew not , or despis'd : The vulgar , dazzled with their glaring light , To their falfe pleasures quickly they invite ; But public favour fo increas'd their pride , They overwhelm'd ...
... Italians firft were priz'd , Our ancient authors knew not , or despis'd : The vulgar , dazzled with their glaring light , To their falfe pleasures quickly they invite ; But public favour fo increas'd their pride , They overwhelm'd ...
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Page 137 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 300 - 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 today.
Page 170 - There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want of knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only...
Page 173 - I am sensible, as I ought to be, of the scandal I have given by my loose writings ; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgment.
Page 126 - But like a Ball of Fire the further thrown, Still with a greater Blaze she shone, And her bright Soul broke out on ev'ry side.
Page 171 - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared.
Page 392 - Fate's severe decree, A new Marcellus shall arise in thee! Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mix'd with the purple roses of the spring: Let me with fun'ral flow'rs his body strow: This gift, which parents to their children owe, This unavailing gift, at least, I may bestow!
Page 140 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Page 172 - Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguished from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons.
Page 90 - Yet had she oft been chas'd with horns and hounds And Scythian shafts; and many winged wounds Aim'd at her heart; was often forc'd to fly, And doom'd to death, though fated not to die. Not so her young; for their unequal line Was hero's make, half human, half divine. Their earthly mold obnoxious was to fate, Th' immortal part assum'd immortal state.