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... nature , but only pu- nishing that of others . As to his Poem , thofe a- lone are capable of doing it juftice , who , to use the words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his fubject and his manner ) VETUSTIS ...
... nature , but only pu- nishing that of others . As to his Poem , thofe a- lone are capable of doing it juftice , who , to use the words of a great writer , know how hard it is ( with regard both to his fubject and his manner ) VETUSTIS ...
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... nature for putting the Laws in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . -- The fame will hold in the republic of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to fcribling pafs on the world . THEOBALD , Letter to ...
... nature for putting the Laws in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . -- The fame will hold in the republic of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to fcribling pafs on the world . THEOBALD , Letter to ...
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... Witneffes with each other , or of each with himself . Hence alfo thou wilt be enabled to draw reflections , not only of a critical , but a moral nature , by being let into many particulars of the Perfon as well as Genius , and B 2.
... Witneffes with each other , or of each with himself . Hence alfo thou wilt be enabled to draw reflections , not only of a critical , but a moral nature , by being let into many particulars of the Perfon as well as Genius , and B 2.
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... numbers , and concludes with faying , that " there are three poems " in our tongue of the fame nature , and each a " mafter - piece in its kind ; The Effay on Tranf " lated Verfe ; the Effay on the Art of B 4 OF xxiii AUTHORS .
... numbers , and concludes with faying , that " there are three poems " in our tongue of the fame nature , and each a " mafter - piece in its kind ; The Effay on Tranf " lated Verfe ; the Effay on the Art of B 4 OF xxiii AUTHORS .
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... nature , humanity , and magnanimity . He is " fo great a lover of falfhood , that , whenever he has " a mind to calumniate his cotemporaries , he brands " them with fome defect which is just contrary to fome " good quality , for which ...
... nature , humanity , and magnanimity . He is " fo great a lover of falfhood , that , whenever he has " a mind to calumniate his cotemporaries , he brands " them with fome defect which is just contrary to fome " good quality , for which ...
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Seite 80 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Seite 210 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Seite 230 - When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide.
Seite 90 - Blasphem'd his gods, the dice, and damn'd his fate ; Then gnaw'd his pen, then dash'd it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound ! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there, Yet wrote and flounder'd on in mere despair.
Seite xxii - The Art of Criticism, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Seite 296 - ... all the great characters of the age; and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
Seite 284 - Lost was the Nation's Sense, nor could be found, While the long solemn Unison went round: Wide, and more wide, it spread o'er all the realm; Ev'n Palinurus nodded at the Helm: The Vapour mild o'er each Committee crept; Unfinish'd Treaties in each Office slept; And Chiefless Armies doz'd out the Campaign; And, Navies yawn'd for Orders on the Main.
Seite xxvi - Whether Mr. Addifon did find it conformable to his tafte, or not, beft appears from his own teftimony the year following its publication, in thefe words : Mr.
Seite 296 - ... would not find their account in employing them, or the men themfelves, when difcovered, want courage to proceed in fo unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to The Dunciad, and he thought it an happinefs, that by the late flood of flander on himfelf, he had acquired fuch a peculiar right over their names, as was neceflary to this defign.