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... Virgil . XVI . Answer to the fame . XVII . Criticifms about an elegy of Ovid . XVIII . On fickness and disappointment . XIX . XX . Of Philips's paftorals . XXI . From Mr. Cromwell . On a paffage in Lucan . XXII . Answer to the former ...
... Virgil . XVI . Answer to the fame . XVII . Criticifms about an elegy of Ovid . XVIII . On fickness and disappointment . XIX . XX . Of Philips's paftorals . XXI . From Mr. Cromwell . On a paffage in Lucan . XXII . Answer to the former ...
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... Virgil has taught me , that a young author has not too much reafon to be pleas'd with them , when he confiders that the natural con- fequence of praise is envy and calumny . he may -Si ultra placitum laudarit , baccare frontem Cingite ...
... Virgil has taught me , that a young author has not too much reafon to be pleas'd with them , when he confiders that the natural con- fequence of praise is envy and calumny . he may -Si ultra placitum laudarit , baccare frontem Cingite ...
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... Virgil ) the beft Critic of our Nation in his time . P. Mr. Walsh encouraged our Author much , and ufed to tell him , That there was one way of excelling yet left open for him , which was by correctness : that tho ' we had feveral great ...
... Virgil ) the beft Critic of our Nation in his time . P. Mr. Walsh encouraged our Author much , and ufed to tell him , That there was one way of excelling yet left open for him , which was by correctness : that tho ' we had feveral great ...
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... Virgil had written nothing fo good at his age I fhall take it as a favour if you will bring me acquainted with him : and if he will give himself the trouble any morning to call at my house , I fhall be very glad to read the verses over ...
... Virgil had written nothing fo good at his age I fhall take it as a favour if you will bring me acquainted with him : and if he will give himself the trouble any morning to call at my house , I fhall be very glad to read the verses over ...
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... Virgil , who is the best of them . As for the Greek Poets , if we cannot trace them fo plainly , ' tis perhaps because we have none before them ; ' tis evident that most of them borrowed from Homer , and Homer has been accus'd of ...
... Virgil , who is the best of them . As for the Greek Poets , if we cannot trace them fo plainly , ' tis perhaps because we have none before them ; ' tis evident that most of them borrowed from Homer , and Homer has been accus'd of ...
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Seite 70 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Seite 69 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Seite 190 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Seite 245 - Pray, Mr. Lintot, (said I,) now you talk of Translators, what is your method of managing them? "Sir, (replied he,) those are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe : I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.
Seite 185 - I confess, I cannot apprehend where lies the trifling in all this : it is the most natural and obvious reflection imaginable to a dying man : and, if we...
Seite 244 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
Seite 184 - I never had any esteem for, are likely to enjoy this world after me. When I reflect what an...
Seite 182 - ... putrify, and are good for nothing, and running violently on, do but the more mischief in their passage to others, and are swallowed up and lost the sooner themselves.
Seite 236 - Inarime is an epitome of the whole earth, containing within the compass of eighteen miles, a wonderful variety of hills, vales, ragged rocks, fruitful plains, and barren mountains, all thrown together in a most romantic confusion.
Seite 132 - L. walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the King, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain all alone under the garden wall.