English poetsHenry Francis Cary H. G. Bohn, 1846 |
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... Essay on Epitaphs , and an Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marl- borough , were certainly contributed to his Miscellany by Johnson . Two tracts , the one a Vindication of the Licenser of the Stage from the ...
... Essay on Epitaphs , and an Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marl- borough , were certainly contributed to his Miscellany by Johnson . Two tracts , the one a Vindication of the Licenser of the Stage from the ...
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... essays for the Adventurer , which Hawkesworth was then publish- ing ; and wrote for Mrs. Lenox a Dedication to the Earl of Orrery , of her Shakspeare illustrated ; and , in the following year , inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine a ...
... essays for the Adventurer , which Hawkesworth was then publish- ing ; and wrote for Mrs. Lenox a Dedication to the Earl of Orrery , of her Shakspeare illustrated ; and , in the following year , inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine a ...
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... Essays , he was supplied with Nos . 33 , 93 , and 96 , by Thomas Warton ; with No. 67 by Langton , and with Nos . 76 ... Essay on the Bravery of the Eng- lish common Soldiers , were subjoined to this paper , when it was collected into ...
... Essays , he was supplied with Nos . 33 , 93 , and 96 , by Thomas Warton ; with No. 67 by Langton , and with Nos . 76 ... Essay on the Bravery of the Eng- lish common Soldiers , were subjoined to this paper , when it was collected into ...
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... , when Lord North stopped the sale , and caused some alterations to be made , for reasons which the author did not himself distinctly comprehend . Johnson's own opinion of these two political essays was , 46 LIVES OF ENGLISH POETS .
... , when Lord North stopped the sale , and caused some alterations to be made , for reasons which the author did not himself distinctly comprehend . Johnson's own opinion of these two political essays was , 46 LIVES OF ENGLISH POETS .
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Henry Francis Cary. Johnson's own opinion of these two political essays was , that there was a subtlety of disquisition in the first , that was worth all the fire of the second . When questioned by Boswell as to the truth of a report ...
Henry Francis Cary. Johnson's own opinion of these two political essays was , that there was a subtlety of disquisition in the first , that was worth all the fire of the second . When questioned by Boswell as to the truth of a report ...
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Página 217 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Página 44 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 203 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página 217 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Página 53 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 2 - He, and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for London together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French.
Página 123 - not only witty in himself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 207 - Woods ! that listen to the night-birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where, like a man beloved...
Página 245 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 207 - Yea, every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.