The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1J. Rivington & Sons, L. Davis, B. White & Son, T. Longman, B. Law, ... [and 35 others in London], 1790 |
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The love of different women is , in geographical poetry , compared to travels
through different countries : Haft thou not found each woman's breast ( The land
where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages pofseft , Or wild , and uninhabited ?
The love of different women is , in geographical poetry , compared to travels
through different countries : Haft thou not found each woman's breast ( The land
where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages pofseft , Or wild , and uninhabited ?
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All that man has to do is to live and die ; the sum of humanity is comprehended by
Donne in the following lines : Think in how poor a prison thou didst lie ; After
enabled but to suck and cry . Think , when ' twas grown to most , ' twas a poor inn
...
All that man has to do is to live and die ; the sum of humanity is comprehended by
Donne in the following lines : Think in how poor a prison thou didst lie ; After
enabled but to suck and cry . Think , when ' twas grown to most , ' twas a poor inn
...
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Hope , thou bold taster of delight , [ it quite ! Who , whilst thou should'st but taste ,
devour'lt Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with
legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins
to ...
Hope , thou bold taster of delight , [ it quite ! Who , whilst thou should'st but taste ,
devour'lt Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with
legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins
to ...
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The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : 1
Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus ' top where thou Site'st to behold thy sacred
show , If in Alpheus ? filver flight , If in my verse thou take delight , My verse ,
great ...
The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : 1
Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus ' top where thou Site'st to behold thy sacred
show , If in Alpheus ? filver flight , If in my verse thou take delight , My verse ,
great ...
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bishops , you may be presented with a thou . “ fand instances of poor men that
have re" ceived hard measure from their landlords ; " and of worldly goods
abused , to the injury “ of others , and disadvantage of the owners . " And
therefore , Mr.
bishops , you may be presented with a thou . “ fand instances of poor men that
have re" ceived hard measure from their landlords ; " and of worldly goods
abused , to the injury “ of others , and disadvantage of the owners . " And
therefore , Mr.
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Página 113 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 55 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 347 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Página 119 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.
Página 271 - ... he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it is not the first.
Página 216 - To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Página 25 - I am yet unable to move or turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging.
Página 30 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Página 260 - But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment or ascribe to them any material agency is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity.
Página 40 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
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| Título | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1 The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, John Rivington |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Colaborador | John Rivington |
| Editor | J. Rivington & Sons, L. Davis, B. White & Son, T. Longman, B. Law, ... [and 35 others in London], 1790 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 19 Jun. 2007 |
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