The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... ground glitter'd where the standard flew , And the green grass was dy'd to sanguine 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 sanguine 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 had either got ,. And less he knew him for his hated foe , But fear'd him as a man he did not know . But as it has been said of ancient years , That fields are full of eyes , and woods have ears ; For this the wise are ever on ...
... ground had either got ,. And less he knew him for his hated foe , But fear'd him as a man he did not know . But as it has been said of ancient years , That fields are full of eyes , and woods have ears ; For this the wise are ever on ...
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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 ...
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... ground ( An isle for love and arms of old renown'd ) But would have sold his life to purchase fame , To Palamon or Arcite sent his name : And had the land selected of the best , Half had come hence , and let the world provide the rest ...
... ground ( An isle for love and arms of old renown'd ) But would have sold his life to purchase fame , To Palamon or Arcite sent his name : And had the land selected of the best , Half had come hence , and let the world provide the rest ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.