The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 11804 |
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... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ' ; Oh , ' tis imposture all : And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal , ร ...
... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ' ; Oh , ' tis imposture all : And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal , ร ...
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... tell ! Unhappy till the last , the kind releasing knell . His heroic lines are often formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are soine- times sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall ...
... tell ! Unhappy till the last , the kind releasing knell . His heroic lines are often formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are soine- times sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall ...
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... tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than lie can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse . Every man , that has ever undertaken to instruct others , can tell ...
... tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than lie can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse . Every man , that has ever undertaken to instruct others , can tell ...
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... telling that he has used Persona , which , according to Milton , signifies only a Mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply Person . But as Nemesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has ...
... telling that he has used Persona , which , according to Milton , signifies only a Mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply Person . But as Nemesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has ...
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... tell how a shepherd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus grieves ...
... tell how a shepherd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus grieves ...
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Page 562 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 44 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 55 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 673 - I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning, "Yet even these bones...
Page 204 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.
Page 12 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Page 557 - His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication, was not strictly true. His parental attention never abandoned them ; what he found amiss in the first edition, he silently corrected in those that followed. He appears to have revised the 'Iliad...
Page 5 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace: Nor let him then enjoy supreme command ; But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand!
Page 636 - Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 522 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.