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... couplet ; for what can be more absurd , said Minim , than that part of a play should be rhymed , and part written in blank verse ? and by what acquisition of faculties is the speaker , who never could find rhymes before , enabled to ...
... couplet ; for what can be more absurd , said Minim , than that part of a play should be rhymed , and part written in blank verse ? and by what acquisition of faculties is the speaker , who never could find rhymes before , enabled to ...
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... couplet ; and rejoices that genius has , in our days , shaken off the shackles which had encumbered it so long . Yet he allows that rhyme may sometimes be borne , if the lines be often broken , and the pauses judiciously di- versified ...
... couplet ; and rejoices that genius has , in our days , shaken off the shackles which had encumbered it so long . Yet he allows that rhyme may sometimes be borne , if the lines be often broken , and the pauses judiciously di- versified ...
الصفحة 82
... couplet the language is distorted by in- versions , clogged with superfluities , and clouded by a harsh metaphor ; and in the second there are two words used in an uncommon sense , and two epithets inserted only to lengthen the line ...
... couplet the language is distorted by in- versions , clogged with superfluities , and clouded by a harsh metaphor ; and in the second there are two words used in an uncommon sense , and two epithets inserted only to lengthen the line ...
الصفحة 84
... with too hard a task . It is less difficult to write a volume of lines swelled with epithets , brightened by figures , and stiffened by transpositions , than to produce a few couplets THE IDLER Biography how best performed,
... with too hard a task . It is less difficult to write a volume of lines swelled with epithets , brightened by figures , and stiffened by transpositions , than to produce a few couplets THE IDLER Biography how best performed,
الصفحة 85
stiffened by transpositions , than to produce a few couplets graced only by naked elegance and simple . purity , which require so much care and skill , that I doubt whether any of our authors has yet been able , for twenty lines ...
stiffened by transpositions , than to produce a few couplets graced only by naked elegance and simple . purity , which require so much care and skill , that I doubt whether any of our authors has yet been able , for twenty lines ...
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admired amusement authors Bassora beauty Carlo Maratti censure character coach common commonly considered couplet criticism curiosity delight desire Dick diligence easily easy poetry elegance eminent endeavour English enquire Epictetus epitaph equally evil expected expence faults fortune friends genius happiness honour hope hour Hudibras Idler Iliad imagination inscription Italian king of Norway knowledge labour lady language Lapland learned less lines live mankind marriage memory ment mind nation nature neglected neral never numbers observed OCTOBER 20 once opinion Ortogrul painter painting panegyric pass passions perhaps pleasure poets praise produce rapture readers reason resolved retired rich SATURDAY seldom seldom disappointed sense shew sometimes Sophron SPRITELY suffered Sugar-baker supposed tell thagoras ther thing thought tion told tomb Trifle truth Venetian school verse virtue weary Westminster Abbey wish wonder words write
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الصفحة 184 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
الصفحة 82 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.
الصفحة 98 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
الصفحة 183 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear ; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
الصفحة 89 - It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed ; but it must be considered, that, if the excellency of a painter consisted only in this kind of imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best...
الصفحة 186 - On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her Breast. ' Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense ; No conquest she, but o'er herself desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that Virtue only is our own.
الصفحة 187 - Pensive hast follow'd to the silent tomb, Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore, Not parted long, and now to part no more ! Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
الصفحة 106 - NOVEMBER 24, 1759. .BIOGRAPHY is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life.
الصفحة 191 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...
الصفحة 92 - That every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced, and almost universally confessed; but let us not attend only to mournful truths; if we look impartially about us, we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures and its joys.