The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volúmenes 35-36Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Página 354 - and death's inexorable doom; The life which others pay, let us be-Stow, And give to fame what we to nature owe; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give
Página 3 - regular gardens, Art can only reduce the beauties of Nature to more regularity, and fuch a figure, which the common eye may better take in, and is therefore more entertained with. And perhaps the reafon why common critics are inclind. to prefer a judicious and methodical genius to a great and fruitful one, is, becaufe they find it
Página 15 - to afcribe it to the nature of the Latin tongue: indeed the Greek has fome advantages both from the natural found of its words, and the turn and cadence of its verfe, which agree with the genius of no other language: Virgil was very fenfible of this, and ufed the
Página 8 - agreeable to the nature of the things they Ihadowed! This is a field in which no fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having
Página 194 - quit the field of fame? ¿ My early youth was bred to martial pains, My foul impels me to th' embattled plains: Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories, and my own. Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates: (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy
Página 8 - and ample fcene of wonder may this confideration afford us! how fertile will that imagination appear, which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and perfons; and to introduce them into
Página 38 - by the addrefs of Vulcan. The time of two and twenty days is taken up in this book; nine during the plague, one in the council and quarrel of the princes, and twelve for Jupiter's flay with the )Ethiopians, at whofe return Thetis prefers her petition. The fcene lies in the
Página 12 - horror, and confufion. It is certain there is not near that number of images and defcriptions in any Epic Poet¿; though every one has aflifted himfelf. with a great quantity out of him: and it is evident of. Virgil efpecially, that he has fcarce any comparifons
Página 190 - I leave the walls. 455 Ere yet I mingle in the direful fray, My wife, my infant, claim a moment's Stay; This day (perhaps the laSt that fees me here) Demands a parting word, a tender tear: This day, fome God who hates our Trojan land 460 May
Página 196 - No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the filent tomb. Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth; And fuch the hard condition of our birth, No force can then