The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, כרך 241790 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 40
עמוד 5
... Trojan hero brought , Which with her hands Sidonian Dido wrought . One veft array'd the corpfe , and one they spread O'er his clos'd eyes , and wrap'd around his head : That when the yellow hair in flame fhould fall , The catching fire ...
... Trojan hero brought , Which with her hands Sidonian Dido wrought . One veft array'd the corpfe , and one they spread O'er his clos'd eyes , and wrap'd around his head : That when the yellow hair in flame fhould fall , The catching fire ...
עמוד 6
... Trojan and Arcadian horse , To Pallantean towers direct their course , In long proceffion rank'd ; the pious chief Stopp'd in the rear , and gave a vent to grief . The public care , he said , which war attends , Diverts our prefent woes ...
... Trojan and Arcadian horse , To Pallantean towers direct their course , In long proceffion rank'd ; the pious chief Stopp'd in the rear , and gave a vent to grief . The public care , he said , which war attends , Diverts our prefent woes ...
עמוד 10
... Trojan friend upbraid , Nor grudge th ' alliance I so gladly made . " Twas not his fault my Pallas fell fo young , But my own crime for having liv'd too long . Yet , fince the gods had destin'd him to die , At least he led the way to ...
... Trojan friend upbraid , Nor grudge th ' alliance I so gladly made . " Twas not his fault my Pallas fell fo young , But my own crime for having liv'd too long . Yet , fince the gods had destin'd him to die , At least he led the way to ...
עמוד 11
... Trojan king , and Tufcan chief , command To raife the piles along the winding ftrand : Their friends convey the dead to funeral fires ; Black fmouldring fmoke from the green wood expires ; The light of heaven is chok'd , and the new day ...
... Trojan king , and Tufcan chief , command To raife the piles along the winding ftrand : Their friends convey the dead to funeral fires ; Black fmouldring fmoke from the green wood expires ; The light of heaven is chok'd , and the new day ...
עמוד 13
... Trojan hero hand to hand : His is the gain , our lot is but to ferve : ' Tis juft , the sway he feeks , he fhould deserve . This Drances aggravates ; and adds , with spight , His foe expects , and dares him to the fight . Nor Turnus ...
... Trojan hero hand to hand : His is the gain , our lot is but to ferve : ' Tis juft , the sway he feeks , he fhould deserve . This Drances aggravates ; and adds , with spight , His foe expects , and dares him to the fight . Nor Turnus ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Æneas Æneid againſt alfo almoſt alſo amongſt arms Auguftus becauſe befides beſt betwixt breaſt Cæfar Cafaubon caft cauſe defign defire eaſe Engliſh Ennius Ev'n eyes fafely faid fame fate fatire fatyrs fays fear fecond fenfe fhall fhould fide field fight fince firft firſt flain flave foes fome foul ftand ftill fubject fuch fword give gods Grecians hand heaven himſelf honour Horace huſband Juturna Juvenal laft laſt Latin leaſt lefs Livius Andronicus loft lord Lucilius mafter Menippus moft moſt muft muſt myſelf numbers o'er obfcure Pacuvius Perfius perfons pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetry praiſe prefent purſue Quintilian raiſe reafon reft refuſe reſt rife Roman Rome Rutulians ſay Scaliger Sejanus ſhall ſhare ſhe ſky ſome ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou Trojan Turnus underſtand uſe Varro verfe verſes vices Virgil whofe Whoſe wife wiſh words
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 111 - For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other ; and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government.
עמוד 93 - But many of his deserve not this redemption any more than the crowds of men who daily die, or are slain for sixpence in a battle, merit to be restored to life if a wish could revive them.
עמוד 191 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
עמוד 116 - ... words may then be laudably revived, when either they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice ; and when their obscurity is taken away, by joining other words to them which clear the sense, according to the rule of Horace, for the admission of new words.
עמוד 202 - Donne's fatires, which abound with fo much wit, appear more charming, if he had taken care of his words, and of his numbers?
עמוד 347 - Dama, once a groom of low degree, Not worth a farthing, and a sot beside ; So true a rogue, for lying's sake he lied : But, with a turn, a freeman he became ; ll0 Now Marcus Dama is his worship's name.
עמוד 125 - Thus, my lord, I have, as briefly as I could, given your lordship, and by you the world, a rude draught of what I have been long labouring in my imagination, and what I had intended to have put in practice (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem) ; and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it.
עמוד 114 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets, and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
עמוד 22 - Our foes encourage, and our friends debase. Believe thy fables, and the Trojan town Triumphant stands; the Grecians are o'erthrown; Suppliant at Hector's...
עמוד 126 - King Arthur conquering the Saxons, which, being farther distant in time, gives the greater scope to my invention; or that of Edward the Black Prince, in subduing Spain, and restoring it to the lawful prince, though a great tyrant, Don Pedro the cruel...