The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 第 12 巻J. Johnson, 1810 - 640 ページ |
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... turn our thoughts from the words to the sentiments , and make them more casy and intelligible . A skill in verbal criticism is in reality but a skill in guessing , and consequently he is the best critic who guesses best : a mighty ...
... turn our thoughts from the words to the sentiments , and make them more casy and intelligible . A skill in verbal criticism is in reality but a skill in guessing , and consequently he is the best critic who guesses best : a mighty ...
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... Turn'd the swift foe : now nigh the fleet they flew , Now almost mingled with the guards ; when lo ! The martial goddess breath'd heroic flames Fierce on Tydides ' soul : the hero fear'd Lest some bold Greek should interpose a wound ...
... Turn'd the swift foe : now nigh the fleet they flew , Now almost mingled with the guards ; when lo ! The martial goddess breath'd heroic flames Fierce on Tydides ' soul : the hero fear'd Lest some bold Greek should interpose a wound ...
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... turn the toy : Thus offerings from th ' unjust pollute the skies , The good , turn smoke into a sacrifice . As when an artist plans a favourite draught , The structures rise responsive to the thought ; A palace grows beneath his forming ...
... turn the toy : Thus offerings from th ' unjust pollute the skies , The good , turn smoke into a sacrifice . As when an artist plans a favourite draught , The structures rise responsive to the thought ; A palace grows beneath his forming ...
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... Turn'd its gay arch , and bade its colours glow : Its radiant circle compasses the skies , And sweetly the rich ... turns , the hoary deeps divide ; He breathes a tempest , and he spouts a tide . Thus , Lord , the wonders of earth , sea ...
... Turn'd its gay arch , and bade its colours glow : Its radiant circle compasses the skies , And sweetly the rich ... turns , the hoary deeps divide ; He breathes a tempest , and he spouts a tide . Thus , Lord , the wonders of earth , sea ...
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... turn , my charmer , turn thy eyes ! See ! how at once it fades , it dies ! While thine - it gaily pleas'd the view , Unfaded , as before it grew ! Now , from thy bosom doom'd to stray , ' Tis only beauteous in decay : So the sweet ...
... turn , my charmer , turn thy eyes ! See ! how at once it fades , it dies ! While thine - it gaily pleas'd the view , Unfaded , as before it grew ! Now , from thy bosom doom'd to stray , ' Tis only beauteous in decay : So the sweet ...
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229 ページ - 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.
161 ページ - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require...
229 ページ - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives — T
447 ページ - Wisely regardful of the* embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit.
243 ページ - And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown 125 Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd.
169 ページ - What time would spare, from steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate ! Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
166 ページ - What though no credit doubting wits may give, The fair and innocent shall still believe. Know then, unnumber'd spirits round thee fly, The light militia of the lower sky : These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the box, and hover round the ring.
105 ページ - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either; for both excelled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes...
219 ページ - 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.
230 ページ - Through this day's life or death ! This day, be bread and peace my lot All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let Thy will be done. To thee, whose temple is all space, Whose altar, earth, sea, skies! One chorus let all Being raise ! All Nature's incense rise ! MOEAL ESSAYS, m FOUR EPISTLES TO SEVERAL PERSONS.