The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is ...
... original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is ...
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... original im- port means exility of particles , is taken in its metapho- rical meaning for nicety of diftinction . Those writers . who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have ...
... original im- port means exility of particles , is taken in its metapho- rical meaning for nicety of diftinction . Those writers . who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have ...
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... original fin , Such charms thy beauty wears as might Defires in dying confeft faints excite . Thou with ftrange adultery Doft in each breast a brothel keep ; Awake , all men do luft for thee , And fome enjoy thee when they fleep . The ...
... original fin , Such charms thy beauty wears as might Defires in dying confeft faints excite . Thou with ftrange adultery Doft in each breast a brothel keep ; Awake , all men do luft for thee , And fome enjoy thee when they fleep . The ...
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... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is fuper- added by his paraphraft , who has many other plays of words and fancy unfuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is fuper- added by his paraphraft , who has many other plays of words and fancy unfuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
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... original than the secondary fenfe , more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The Mufe , who goes to take the air in an in ...
... original than the secondary fenfe , more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The Mufe , who goes to take the air in an in ...
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Page 98 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 21 - I am yet unable to move or turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants,' and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging.
Page 383 - Of him that knows much, it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence ; yet I rather believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of knowledge, and a powerful digestion...
Page 406 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 268 - Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication of man to man may diffuse itself through many topics of persuasion ; but supplication to God can only cry for mercy.
Page 473 - James, whose skill in physic 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 public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 24 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Page 126 - I have a particular occasion to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning : for some years as I went from time to time to visit him , in a parcel of ten , twenty , or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing...
Page 377 - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes.