The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... present day . I have dedicated the translation of the lives of Plutarch to the first duke ; and have celebrated the memory of your heroic father . Though I am very short of the age of Nestor , yet I have lived to a third generation of ...
... present day . I have dedicated the translation of the lives of Plutarch to the first duke ; and have celebrated the memory of your heroic father . Though I am very short of the age of Nestor , yet I have lived to a third generation of ...
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... present work ; to which I have added some original papers of my own ; which , whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems , an author is the most improper judge ; and therefore I leave them wholly to the mercy of the reader . I ...
... present work ; to which I have added some original papers of my own ; which , whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems , an author is the most improper judge ; and therefore I leave them wholly to the mercy of the reader . I ...
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... present money , no matter how they pay it afterwards : besides , the nature of a preface is rambling ; never wholly out of the way , nor in it . This I have learned from the practice of honest Montaigne , and return at my pleasure to ...
... present money , no matter how they pay it afterwards : besides , the nature of a preface is rambling ; never wholly out of the way , nor in it . This I have learned from the practice of honest Montaigne , and return at my pleasure to ...
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... present English : as for example , these two lines , in the description of the carpenter's young wife : Wincing she was , as is a jolly colt , Long as a mast , and upright as a bolt . I have almost done with Chaucer , when I have ...
... present English : as for example , these two lines , in the description of the carpenter's young wife : Wincing she was , as is a jolly colt , Long as a mast , and upright as a bolt . I have almost done with Chaucer , when I have ...
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... present ; in the story of Palamon and Arcite , where the temple of Diana is described , you find these verses , in all the editions of our author : There saw I Danè turned into a tree , I mean not the goddess Diane , But Venus daughter ...
... present ; in the story of Palamon and Arcite , where the temple of Diana is described , you find these verses , in all the editions of our author : There saw I Danè turned into a tree , I mean not the goddess Diane , But Venus daughter ...
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WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS FRO Alexander 1759-1834 Chalmers,Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson No preview available - 2016 |
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... Alexander Chalmers No preview available - 2013 |
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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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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...