Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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الصفحة 28
... of his genius , and applied himself to fatirical compo- fitions . Yet he has fometimes offended against the just rules of fatire , by mak- ing mankind in general , instead of the vicious vicious part , the fubject of his ridicule . " ( 28 )
... of his genius , and applied himself to fatirical compo- fitions . Yet he has fometimes offended against the just rules of fatire , by mak- ing mankind in general , instead of the vicious vicious part , the fubject of his ridicule . " ( 28 )
الصفحة 43
... just criticism : But in your lines let energy be found , And learn to rise in sense and fink in found . Harsh words , tho ' pertinent , uncouth appear , None please the fancy who offend the ear . In fenfe and numbers if you would excel ...
... just criticism : But in your lines let energy be found , And learn to rise in sense and fink in found . Harsh words , tho ' pertinent , uncouth appear , None please the fancy who offend the ear . In fenfe and numbers if you would excel ...
الصفحة 58
... just to your fenfe with Mr. ' s , and without comparison more eafy , more poetical , and more fublime . " And Mr. Gay . I have juft fet down Sir Samuel 66 Garth at the opera . He bid me tell you , that e- very body is pleafed with your ...
... just to your fenfe with Mr. ' s , and without comparison more eafy , more poetical , and more fublime . " And Mr. Gay . I have juft fet down Sir Samuel 66 Garth at the opera . He bid me tell you , that e- very body is pleafed with your ...
الصفحة 86
... just as rich as when he ferv'd a Queen . A. Whether that bleffing be deny'd or giv❜n , Thus far was right ; the rest belongs to heav'n . What a noble conclufion is this of the prologue to the Satires ? Thefe lines are fo excessively ...
... just as rich as when he ferv'd a Queen . A. Whether that bleffing be deny'd or giv❜n , Thus far was right ; the rest belongs to heav'n . What a noble conclufion is this of the prologue to the Satires ? Thefe lines are fo excessively ...
الصفحة 99
... against a foible fo common in the world is as just as it is beautiful , and much more fpirited than the original . How often do we fee H 2 * Verfe 155 . people people of no extraction , on the least ac ceffion ( 99 )
... against a foible fo common in the world is as just as it is beautiful , and much more fpirited than the original . How often do we fee H 2 * Verfe 155 . people people of no extraction , on the least ac ceffion ( 99 )
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الصفحة 86 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, 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 a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
الصفحة 175 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
الصفحة 55 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
الصفحة 56 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
الصفحة 167 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
الصفحة 36 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
الصفحة 169 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
الصفحة 36 - Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
الصفحة 13 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
الصفحة 34 - If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by the change he has made, from having no religion, to choose one of the worst.