The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Bind 9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... plain , With groans , and hands upheld , to move his mind , Besought his pity to their helpless kind ! The prince was touch'd , his tears began to flow , And , as his tender heart would break in two , He sigh'd , and could not but their ...
... plain , With groans , and hands upheld , to move his mind , Besought his pity to their helpless kind ! The prince was touch'd , his tears began to flow , And , as his tender heart would break in two , He sigh'd , and could not but their ...
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... plain , Appeach my honour , or thine own maintain , Since thou art of my council , and the friend Whose faith I trust , and on whose care depend : And would'st thou court my lady's love , which I Much rather than release would choose to ...
... plain , Appeach my honour , or thine own maintain , Since thou art of my council , and the friend Whose faith I trust , and on whose care depend : And would'st thou court my lady's love , which I Much rather than release would choose to ...
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... plain , The prize of valour and of love shall gain ; The vanquish'd party shall their claim release , And the long jars conclude in lasting peace . The charge be mine t ' adorn the chosen ground , The theatre of war , for champions so ...
... plain , The prize of valour and of love shall gain ; The vanquish'd party shall their claim release , And the long jars conclude in lasting peace . The charge be mine t ' adorn the chosen ground , The theatre of war , for champions so ...
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... plain ; The treason punish'd , and the traitor slain . The rest were various huntings , well design'd , And savage beasts destroy'd , of every kind . The graceful goddess was array'd in green ; About her feet were little beagles seen ...
... plain ; The treason punish'd , and the traitor slain . The rest were various huntings , well design'd , And savage beasts destroy'd , of every kind . The graceful goddess was array'd in green ; About her feet were little beagles seen ...
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... plain , And fight on foot their honour to regain ; Nor , if at mischief taken , on the ground Be slain , but prisoners to the pillar bound , At either barrier plac'd ; nor ( captives made ) Be freed , or arm'd anew the fight invade ...
... plain , And fight on foot their honour to regain ; Nor , if at mischief taken , on the ground Be slain , but prisoners to the pillar bound , At either barrier plac'd ; nor ( captives made ) Be freed , or arm'd anew the fight invade ...
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Æneid Apicius arms beauty behold blood breast bright call'd charms Chaucer command coursers Crete cries cry'd death delight divine Earth Ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flame Georgic give glory goddess gods grace Greece grief ground hand haste heart Heaven hero Hesiod 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 Ovid pain passion peace Pentheus 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 tears tell thee Theocritus Theseus thine things thou thought trembling Twas verse Virgil virgin virtue voice Whilst winds words wound youth
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Side 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.
Side 9 - 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.
Side 176 - James, whose skill in physick 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 publick stock of harmless pleasure.
Side 18 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality ; and retract them.
Side 366 - Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
Side 365 - The seas that roll unnumber'd waves ; The wood that spreads its shady leaves ; The field whose ears conceal the grain, The yellow treasure of the plain ; All of these, and all I see, Should be sung, and sung by me : They speak their maker as they can, But want and ask the tongue of man.
Side 364 - 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...
Side 124 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Side 54 - And forced himself to drive, but loved to draw : For Fear but freezes minds ; but Love, like heat, Exhales the soul sublime to seek her native seat.
Side 15 - I know not what answer they could have made ; for that reason, such tale shall be left untold by me. You have here a specimen of Chaucer's language, which is so obsolete, that his sense is scarce to be understood ; and you have likewise more than one example of his unequal numbers, which were mentioned before.