Quarrels of authors. Character of James the First. Literary miscellaniesBaudry's European library, 1840 |
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... honours at Oxford , which were offered to Pope , then his fellow - traveller , and who , in consequence of this refusal , did himself not accept them - in his controversy with Lowth ( then the Oxford Professor ) , gave way to his angry ...
... honours at Oxford , which were offered to Pope , then his fellow - traveller , and who , in consequence of this refusal , did himself not accept them - in his controversy with Lowth ( then the Oxford Professor ) , gave way to his angry ...
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... honour of the prophet . If Evans meant anything , he meant what was then floating in all men's minds , the probable restoration of the Stuarts . By this prelude of that inventive genius which afterwards commented , in the same spirit ...
... honour of the prophet . If Evans meant anything , he meant what was then floating in all men's minds , the probable restoration of the Stuarts . By this prelude of that inventive genius which afterwards commented , in the same spirit ...
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... honour . Warburton might otherwise have been shown strangely to contradict himself ; for in these letters he had been most lavish of his flatteries and encomiums on the man whom he covered with ridicule in the preface to his Shakespeare ...
... honour . Warburton might otherwise have been shown strangely to contradict himself ; for in these letters he had been most lavish of his flatteries and encomiums on the man whom he covered with ridicule in the preface to his Shakespeare ...
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... honour , which the ACADEMIC Exercise of WIT is conceived to bring to its professors !. " Here , then , we discover the Secret principle which con- ducted Warburton through all his works , although of the most opposite natures . I do not ...
... honour , which the ACADEMIC Exercise of WIT is conceived to bring to its professors !. " Here , then , we discover the Secret principle which con- ducted Warburton through all his works , although of the most opposite natures . I do not ...
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... honour of adopting his principles . Selden wrote against the divine right of tithes , but allowed the legal right ; which gave , at first , great offence to the clergy , who afterwards perceived the propriety of his argument , as Wotton ...
... honour of adopting his principles . Selden wrote against the divine right of tithes , but allowed the legal right ; which gave , at first , great offence to the clergy , who afterwards perceived the propriety of his argument , as Wotton ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accused Addison admirable adversary Æneid afterwards alludes ancient Anthony Wood appears Aristotle attack Bentley Bishop Bolingbroke Boyle called character Church Cibber considered contempt controversy court criticism curious Curll D'Avenant declared discovered Divine Dunciad edition Essay on Criticism favour feelings genius give Gondibert hath Hill Hobbes honour Horace human humour imagined invention James Job Throckmorton Johnson king labours learned letters Leviathan libel literary quarrel literature lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke malicious Martin Marvell mind Molière monarch nation nature never observed opinions original party passion Phalaris philosopher poem poet Poetaster poetical political Pope Pope's preface preserved prince principle printed published Puritans racter reader reign religion replied ridicule Royal Society satire satirist Satiromastix says secret seems Sir John Hill sovereign spirit Stubbe style taste things thou thought tion truth verse Warburton write written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 9 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world. Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under 'iis huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Seite 78 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 201 - But you have so many friends to oblige, had you the world to dispose of !" "Shall I be the better for that when I am dead 3" " No," repeated the sublime cynic, "I would give the whole world to live one day.
Seite 197 - This was the Fell whom it was so difficult to assign a reason for not liking : I don't like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But I don't like thee, Dr.
Seite 322 - His lieutenant here ye should remain : Reward the just ; be steadfast, true, and plain ; Repress the proud, maintaining aye the right ; Walk always so as ever in His sight, Who guards the godly, plaguing the profane. And so ye shall in princely virtues shine, Resembling right your mighty King divine.
Seite 360 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarifms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its conftruftion, and fomething to the harmony of its cadence.
Seite 249 - Caps" — ( ie the square caps the bishops wore ). But another of these five hundred sons, who declares himself to be his " reverend and elder brother, heir to the renowned Martin Mar-Prelate the Great...
Seite 155 - But it is high time to strike sail and cast anchor (though I have run but half my course), when, at the helm, I am threatened with death ; who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome ; and, even in the innocent, may beget such gravity as diverts the music of verse.
Seite 222 - On every stage : and I at last, unwilling, But weary, I confess, of so much trouble, Thought I would try if shame could win upon 'em ; And therefore chose Augustus...