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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Հատոր 35 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1779 |
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Հատոր 35 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1779 |
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Հատոր 35 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1790 |
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Էջ 199 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Էջ 21 - Homer and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Էջ 264 - O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
Էջ 10 - ... together by the extent and fecundity of his imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, presented themselves in an instant, and had their impressions taken off to perfection at a heat...
Էջ 226 - This from the right to left the herald bears, Held out in order to the Grecian peers ; Each to his rival yields the mark unknown, Till godlike Ajax finds the lot his own ; Surveys th...
Էջ 29 - I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned.
Էջ 33 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Էջ 241 - The heavens attentive trembled as he spoke: "Celestial states! immortal gods! give ear, Hear our decree, and reverence what ye hear; The fix'd decree which not all heaven can move; Thou, fate! fulfil it! and, ye powers, approve!
Էջ 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Էջ 6 - 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 persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
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| Վերնագիր | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Հատոր 35 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson |
| Հեղինակ | Samuel Johnson |
| Հրատարակիչ | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original from | Նյու Յորքի Հանրային գրադարան |
| Digitized | 22 Նոյեմբեր 2006 |
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