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... verfe , nor choice of words , nor diftinction of thoughts ; but mingle farthings with their gold to make up the fum . Here is a field of fatire opened to me : but , fince the Revolu- tion , I have wholly renounced that talent . For who ...
... verfe , nor choice of words , nor diftinction of thoughts ; but mingle farthings with their gold to make up the fum . Here is a field of fatire opened to me : but , fince the Revolu- tion , I have wholly renounced that talent . For who ...
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... that he will never defame the good ; and is armed with the power of verfe , to punish and make examples of the bad . But of this I fhall have occafion to speak further , further , when I come to give the definition and DEDICATION . 109.
... that he will never defame the good ; and is armed with the power of verfe , to punish and make examples of the bad . But of this I fhall have occafion to speak further , further , when I come to give the definition and DEDICATION . 109.
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... Verfe , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them . And thofe who are guilty of fo boyish an ambition in fo grave a fubject , are fo far from being confidered as Heroic Poets , that they ought to be turned down ...
... Verfe , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them . And thofe who are guilty of fo boyish an ambition in fo grave a fubject , are fo far from being confidered as Heroic Poets , that they ought to be turned down ...
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... verfe . The third chapter of Job is one of the first in- lances of this Poem in Holy Scripture : unless we will take it higher , from the latter end of the fe- cond ; where his wife advifes him to curfe his Maker . The original , I ...
... verfe . The third chapter of Job is one of the first in- lances of this Poem in Holy Scripture : unless we will take it higher , from the latter end of the fe- cond ; where his wife advifes him to curfe his Maker . The original , I ...
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... after their uncouth manner , to a certain kind of verfe , which they called Saturnian : what it was , we have no certain light from antiquity to discover ; but we we may conclude , that , like the Grecian , 338 DEDICATION .
... after their uncouth manner , to a certain kind of verfe , which they called Saturnian : what it was , we have no certain light from antiquity to discover ; but we we may conclude , that , like the Grecian , 338 DEDICATION .
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Seite 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Seite 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Seite 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Seite 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Seite 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Seite 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Seite 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Seite 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Seite 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Seite 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.