The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... thoughts perspicuous and engaging . I shall say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it dis- agreeable ; insomuch that the fair sex , who ob- served and esteemed him ...
... thoughts perspicuous and engaging . I shall say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it dis- agreeable ; insomuch that the fair sex , who ob- served and esteemed him ...
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... thought necessary introductions into the grande monde , this gentleman was so happy as still to please ; and whilst the rich , the gay , the noble , and honourable , saw how much he excelled in wit and learning , they easily forgave him ...
... thought necessary introductions into the grande monde , this gentleman was so happy as still to please ; and whilst the rich , the gay , the noble , and honourable , saw how much he excelled in wit and learning , they easily forgave him ...
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... Thought , Diction , and Figure . I saw the last of these perfect , and in a fair copy , in which he showed pro- digious judgment and reading ; and particularly had reformed the Art of Rhetoric , by reducing that vast and confused heap ...
... Thought , Diction , and Figure . I saw the last of these perfect , and in a fair copy , in which he showed pro- digious judgment and reading ; and particularly had reformed the Art of Rhetoric , by reducing that vast and confused heap ...
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... thought proper to trust the superintendance of others to a man who took so little care of himself . From this time Smith employed his malice and his wit against the Dean , Dr. Aldrich , whom he consi- dered as the opponent of his claim ...
... thought proper to trust the superintendance of others to a man who took so little care of himself . From this time Smith employed his malice and his wit against the Dean , Dr. Aldrich , whom he consi- dered as the opponent of his claim ...
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... thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little ...
... thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little ...
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Page 29 - Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship. At this man's...
Page 66 - Eliza, in silence and darkness: Benevolence was ashamed to favour, and Malice was weary of insulting. Of his four Epic Poems, the first bad such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed; the two last had neither friends nor enemies.
Page 28 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 65 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
Page 59 - That Blackmore, as he proceeded in this poem, laid his manuscript from time to time before a club of wits with whom he associated; and that every man contributed, as he could, either improvement or correction; so that," said Philips, " there are perhaps no where in the book thirty lines together that now stand as they were originally written.
Page 29 - He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such...
Page 88 - These subterranean walls, disposed with art, Such strength, and such stability impart, That storms above, and earthquakes under ground, Break not the pillars, nor the work confound. Give to the earth a form orbicular, Let it be...
Page 211 - A stronger body, and a wiser mind, From sorrow free, nor liable to pain; My passions should obey, and reason reign. Nor could my being from my parents flow, Who neither did the parts, or structure know: Did not my mind or body understand, My sex determine, nor my shape command.
Page 248 - Or silver stars cerulean spheres inlaid; Ere yet the eldest child of Time was born, Or verdant pride young Nature did adorn, Thou wast!
Page 12 - Classics; with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French, Spanish, and Italian (to which languages he was no stranger), and in all the celebrated writers of his own country. But then, according to the curious observation of the late Earl of...