The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Bind 71790 |
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Side 9
... first - fitting of a picture , and therefore like to resemble me accord- ingly . From this which has happened to myself , I began to reflect on the fortune of almost all writers , and espe- cially poets , whofe works ( commonly printed ...
... first - fitting of a picture , and therefore like to resemble me accord- ingly . From this which has happened to myself , I began to reflect on the fortune of almost all writers , and espe- cially poets , whofe works ( commonly printed ...
Side 11
... first Christians , " If their reward be in this life , they are of all men " the most miferable . " And , if in quiet and flourishing times they meet with fo fmall encouragement , what are they to expect in rough and troubled ones ? If ...
... first Christians , " If their reward be in this life , they are of all men " the most miferable . " And , if in quiet and flourishing times they meet with fo fmall encouragement , what are they to expect in rough and troubled ones ? If ...
Side 15
... first , all those which I wrote at school , from the age of ten till after fifteen ; for even fo far backward there remain yet some traces of me in the little footsteps of a child ; which , though they were then looked upon as ...
... first , all those which I wrote at school , from the age of ten till after fifteen ; for even fo far backward there remain yet some traces of me in the little footsteps of a child ; which , though they were then looked upon as ...
Side 16
... first battle of Newbury , where the fucceeding misfortunes of the party stopt the work . As for the enfuing book , it confifts of four * parts . The first is a Miscellany of several subjects , and fome of them made when I was very young ...
... first battle of Newbury , where the fucceeding misfortunes of the party stopt the work . As for the enfuing book , it confifts of four * parts . The first is a Miscellany of several subjects , and fome of them made when I was very young ...
Side 22
... first reapers , but after the very beggars ? Befides , though those mad stories of the gods and heroes feem in themselves fo ridiculous ; yet they were then the whole body ( or rather chaos ) of the theology of those times . They were ...
... first reapers , but after the very beggars ? Befides , though those mad stories of the gods and heroes feem in themselves fo ridiculous ; yet they were then the whole body ( or rather chaos ) of the theology of those times . They were ...
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Side 131 - Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say, Have ye not seen us walking every day? Was there a tree about which did not know The love betwixt us two? Henceforth, ye gentle trees, for ever fade ; Or your sad branches thicker join, And into darksome shades combine, Dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid...
Side 107 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.
Side 195 - To thee of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know! But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous and wise withal, Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
Side 21 - It is time to recover it out of the tyrant's hands, and to restore it to the kingdom of God, who is the father of it.
Side 86 - Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well twice runs his race. And in this true delight. These unbought sports, this happy state. I would not fear, nor wish, my fate; But boldly say each night, "To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them, — I have lived to-day.
Side 133 - Knowledge he only sought, and so soon caught, As if for him knowledge had rather sought: Nor did more learning ever crowded lie In such a short mortality. Whene'er the skilful youth discoursed or writ, Still did the notions throng About his eloquent tongue, Nor could his ink flow faster than his wit.
Side 140 - But I will briefer with them be, Since few of them were long with me. An higher and a nobler strain My present Emperess does claim, Heleonora, first o...
Side 186 - THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which one would think Should have but little need of drink) Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup.
Side 111 - As in the ark, join'd without force or strife, All creatures dwelt; all creatures that had life. Or as the primitive forms of all (If we compare great things with small) Which without discord or confusion lie, In that strange mirror of the Deity.
Side 261 - Darkness' curtains he retires ; In sympathizing night he rolls his smoky fires. .When, Goddess! thou lift'st up thy waken'd head, Out of the morning's purple bed, Thy quire of birds about thee play, And all the joyful world salutes the rising day.