Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotesauthor, 1817 |
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... stands , broke the force of Hannibal's army by its softnesses and delights . In this , I suppose , it dif- fered considerably from the rough parsimonious way of the other parts of Italy the Romans were masters of . There are endless ...
... stands , broke the force of Hannibal's army by its softnesses and delights . In this , I suppose , it dif- fered considerably from the rough parsimonious way of the other parts of Italy the Romans were masters of . There are endless ...
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... stand , unless the Poet had a mind to insinuate that , as Alexander cried because he had no more worlds to conquer , so the Duke cried because he had no more wives to bury . So profound are our Provincial Poets ! But , if you will allow ...
... stand , unless the Poet had a mind to insinuate that , as Alexander cried because he had no more worlds to conquer , so the Duke cried because he had no more wives to bury . So profound are our Provincial Poets ! But , if you will allow ...
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... stand in competition . There is a strength of reason- ing , and flight of fancy , in your verses , that are not often to be met in Poets by profession . The first manifests itself in the Poem to Dr. Taylor , and the latter in this to me ...
... stand in competition . There is a strength of reason- ing , and flight of fancy , in your verses , that are not often to be met in Poets by profession . The first manifests itself in the Poem to Dr. Taylor , and the latter in this to me ...
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... stands the case with these two rebels of Nature , the Doctor and the Antiquary . The one neglects the Muses after he has possessed and enjoyed them ; the other pursues them with frigid impotency . Good mother Nature then should use them ...
... stands the case with these two rebels of Nature , the Doctor and the Antiquary . The one neglects the Muses after he has possessed and enjoyed them ; the other pursues them with frigid impotency . Good mother Nature then should use them ...
الصفحة 45
... stand confessed . I pass over our Consular Coins in silver , I mean our Court of Aldermen , because of the odious uni- formity formity in their reverses : there being nothing to be MR . WARBURTON TO DR . STUKELEY . 45.
... stand confessed . I pass over our Consular Coins in silver , I mean our Court of Aldermen , because of the odious uni- formity formity in their reverses : there being nothing to be MR . WARBURTON TO DR . STUKELEY . 45.
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الصفحة 198 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
الصفحة 382 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? — Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? Glo. Ay, sir. Lear. And the creature run from the cur ? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office.
الصفحة 483 - All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him : your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him : the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him...
الصفحة 195 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
الصفحة 652 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
الصفحة 73 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
الصفحة 348 - It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd> Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
الصفحة 404 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
الصفحة 834 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death : Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
الصفحة 717 - What City Swans once sung within the walls; Much she revolves their arts, their ancient praise, And sure succession down from Heywood's days.