The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volumen9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... ground the latter end of the day by pursuing his point too far , like the prince of Conde at the battle Senneph ; from immoral plays , to no plays : ab abusu ad usum , non valet consequentia . Ba being a party , I am not to erect myself ...
... ground the latter end of the day by pursuing his point too far , like the prince of Conde at the battle Senneph ; from immoral plays , to no plays : ab abusu ad usum , non valet consequentia . Ba being a party , I am not to erect myself ...
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... ground glitter'd where the standard flew , And the green grass was dy'd to sauguine hue . High on his pointed lance his pennon bore His Cretan fight , the conquer'd Minotaur : The soldiers shout around with generous rage , And in that ...
... ground glitter'd where the standard flew , And the green grass was dy'd to sauguine hue . High on his pointed lance his pennon bore His Cretan fight , the conquer'd Minotaur : The soldiers shout around with generous rage , And in that ...
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... ground , and from his bosom drew A desperate sigh , accusing Heaven and Fate , And angry Juno's unrelenting hate . " Curs'd be the day when first I did appear ; Let it be blotted from the calendar , Lest it pollute the month , and ...
... ground , and from his bosom drew A desperate sigh , accusing Heaven and Fate , And angry Juno's unrelenting hate . " Curs'd be the day when first I did appear ; Let it be blotted from the calendar , Lest it pollute the month , and ...
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... ground , His head should pay the forfeit ; see return'd The perjur'd knight , his oath and honour scorn'd . For this is he , who , with a borrow'd name And proffer'd service , to thy palace came , Now call'd Philostratus : retain'd by ...
... ground , His head should pay the forfeit ; see return'd The perjur'd knight , his oath and honour scorn'd . For this is he , who , with a borrow'd name And proffer'd service , to thy palace came , Now call'd Philostratus : retain'd by ...
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... ground , The theatre of war , for champions so renown'd ; And take the patron's place of either knight , With eyes impartial to behold the fight ; And Heaven of me so judge , as I shall judge aright . If both are satisfied with this ...
... ground , The theatre of war , for champions so renown'd ; And take the patron's place of either knight , With eyes impartial to behold the fight ; And Heaven of me so judge , as I shall judge aright . If both are satisfied with this ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid Ajax Apicius arms Baucis and Philemon bear beauty blood breast call'd Ceyx charms Chaucer Chryseis Cinyras command coursers Crete crime cry'd death design'd Earth Ev'n eyes fair fame fate father fear fight fill'd fire fix'd flame give glory goddess gods grace grief ground hand haste head heart Heaven HIPPOLITUS honour Iphis Ismena join'd Jove king labours light live lord lov'd lover Lucretius LYCON maid mind Mopsus Myrrha never night numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain passion peace Phædra Pindar Pirithous plain pleas'd poet praise prayer Priam prince queen rage rais'd rest rise sacred seas seem'd shade shine sight sing sire skies soft song soul stood sweet sword synalepha tears tell thee Theocritus Theseus thine things thou thought tongue translation trembling Twas verse Virgil Whilst winds words wound youth
Pasajes populares
Página 158 - 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.
Página 506 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 481 - Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt. The story of Bolingbroke is well known. He called Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Página 357 - Horror of horrors ! what ! his only son ? How look'd our hermit when the fact was done ! Not hell, though hell's black jaws in sunder part, And breathe blue fire, could more assault his heart.
Página 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.
Página 354 - While through their ranks in silver pride The nether crescent seems to glide ! The slumbering breeze forgets to breathe, The lake is smooth and clear beneath, Where once again the spangled show Descends to meet our eyes below. The grounds which on the right aspire, In dimness from the view retire : The left presents a place of graves, Whose wall the silent water laves. That steeple guides thy doubtful sight Among the livid gleams of night. There pass, with melancholy state. By all the solemn heaps...
Página 13 - 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.
Página 491 - No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having " turned many to righteousness.
Página 125 - The sense of an author, generally speaking, is to be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives advantage by this lopping of his superfluous branches ; but I rejoin, that a translator has no such right.