The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 50-52Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Durft Homer's Mufe , Or Pindar's , chufe To pour the billows on his string ? No , both defraud The tuneful God ; Scarce more fublime , when Jove they fing . XII . No XII . No former race , With ftrong embrace , TO THE KING . 177.
... Durft Homer's Mufe , Or Pindar's , chufe To pour the billows on his string ? No , both defraud The tuneful God ; Scarce more fublime , when Jove they fing . XII . No XII . No former race , With ftrong embrace , TO THE KING . 177.
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... Pindar , who has as much logic at the bottom as Aristotle or Euclid , to some critics has appeared as mad ; and must appear so to all who enjoy no portion of his own divine fpirit . Dwarf- understandings , measuring others by their own ...
... Pindar , who has as much logic at the bottom as Aristotle or Euclid , to some critics has appeared as mad ; and must appear so to all who enjoy no portion of his own divine fpirit . Dwarf- understandings , measuring others by their own ...
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... Pindar , Anacreon , Sappho , and Horace , are the great Masters of Lyric poetry among Heathen writers . Pindar's Mufe , like Sachariffa , is a ftately , imperi- ous , and accomplished beauty ; equally difdaining the . ufe of art , and ...
... Pindar , Anacreon , Sappho , and Horace , are the great Masters of Lyric poetry among Heathen writers . Pindar's Mufe , like Sachariffa , is a ftately , imperi- ous , and accomplished beauty ; equally difdaining the . ufe of art , and ...
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... pindaric life : They write with phlegm , but then they live with fire ; They cheat the lender , and their works the buyer . I reverence misfortune , not deride ; I pity poverty , but laugh at pride : For who fo fad , but must some mirth ...
... pindaric life : They write with phlegm , but then they live with fire ; They cheat the lender , and their works the buyer . I reverence misfortune , not deride ; I pity poverty , but laugh at pride : For who fo fad , but must some mirth ...
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... " Quem fuper notas aluere ripas , " Fervet , immenfufque ruit profundo . PIND . Concines lætofque dies , & urbis " Publicum ludum , fuper impetrato " Fortis AUGUSTI reditu . " HOR . PREFACE . A Pindaric carries a formidable found ; but.
... " Quem fuper notas aluere ripas , " Fervet , immenfufque ruit profundo . PIND . Concines lætofque dies , & urbis " Publicum ludum , fuper impetrato " Fortis AUGUSTI reditu . " HOR . PREFACE . A Pindaric carries a formidable found ; but.
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Page 1 - tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 31 - How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart!
Page 5 - Youth is not rich in time ; it may be poor ; Part with it as with money, sparing ; pay No moment, but in purchase of its worth ; And what its worth ask death-beds ; they can tell.
Page 123 - Enjoy the various riches nature yields ; Far nobler ! give the riches they enjoy ; Give taste to fruits ; and harmony to groves ; Their radiant beams to gold, and gold's bright...
Page 45 - And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death.
Page 264 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 15 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 226 - All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Page 59 - Religion's All. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next...
Page 35 - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth...