Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... original to rural objects . A young prince who lofes his way in hunting , and either by himself or with his friend talks of his paffion , and bor- rows his images and comparisons from rural beauties , is an excellent perfonage for an ...
... original to rural objects . A young prince who lofes his way in hunting , and either by himself or with his friend talks of his paffion , and bor- rows his images and comparisons from rural beauties , is an excellent perfonage for an ...
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... original , and Virgil little more than an elegant copy ; but by means of the latter's judgment , he has in many places excelled his mafter . Among the Ita- lians the famous Taffo Bonarelli , Gua- rini , and Marino , have written ...
... original , and Virgil little more than an elegant copy ; but by means of the latter's judgment , he has in many places excelled his mafter . Among the Ita- lians the famous Taffo Bonarelli , Gua- rini , and Marino , have written ...
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... blafted branch of a noble genius , like her too he might have risen in his demand for the reft * . • Conjectures on Original Compofition , p . 65 . Difpenfary , canto iv . # The verfification is mufical , and the whole paffage ( 43 )
... blafted branch of a noble genius , like her too he might have risen in his demand for the reft * . • Conjectures on Original Compofition , p . 65 . Difpenfary , canto iv . # The verfification is mufical , and the whole paffage ( 43 )
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... original . Pope's are generally fuch clofe imitations that they cannot in their nature difplay that great princi- ple of original poetry , invention : But for many of thofe fine ftrokes of fevere , but genteel fatire , in the prologue ...
... original . Pope's are generally fuch clofe imitations that they cannot in their nature difplay that great princi- ple of original poetry , invention : But for many of thofe fine ftrokes of fevere , but genteel fatire , in the prologue ...
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... original ; whereas in those parts where the greatest exactness seems to be demanded , he has been the leaft careful , I mean the history of antient ceremonies and rites , & c . in which you have with great judgment been exact . " Ib . P ...
... original ; whereas in those parts where the greatest exactness seems to be demanded , he has been the leaft careful , I mean the history of antient ceremonies and rites , & c . in which you have with great judgment been exact . " Ib . P ...
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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.