A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1757 - 76 Seiten |
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... Greek writers have been indebted to Imitation . We trace the waters of Helicon no higher than to their fource . And we acquiefce , with reason , in the device of the old painter , You know of , who somewhat rudely indeed , but not ...
... Greek writers have been indebted to Imitation . We trace the waters of Helicon no higher than to their fource . And we acquiefce , with reason , in the device of the old painter , You know of , who somewhat rudely indeed , but not ...
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... Greek writers then were , or for any thing we can fay , might be Original . But we can rarely affirm this of any other . And the reafon is plain . When a tafte for letters pre- vail'd in any country , if it arofe at firft from the ef ...
... Greek writers then were , or for any thing we can fay , might be Original . But we can rarely affirm this of any other . And the reafon is plain . When a tafte for letters pre- vail'd in any country , if it arofe at firft from the ef ...
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... Greek and Latin almost as easily as our Profeffors ? And can you doubt that what the knew fo well , would be known , admired , and imitated by every other ? or fay , that the writers of her time were , fome of them , ignorant enough of ...
... Greek and Latin almost as easily as our Profeffors ? And can you doubt that what the knew fo well , would be known , admired , and imitated by every other ? or fay , that the writers of her time were , fome of them , ignorant enough of ...
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... Greek or Roman stamp is still visible in every work of genius , that has taken with the public . Do you think one needed to be told in the title - page , that a late DRAMA , or fome later ODES were form'd on the ancient model ? The ...
... Greek or Roman stamp is still visible in every work of genius , that has taken with the public . Do you think one needed to be told in the title - page , that a late DRAMA , or fome later ODES were form'd on the ancient model ? The ...
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... Greek fchools . It is as true of the moderns in this part of the world , that they , in ge- neral , have had their breeding in both the Greek and Latin Latin . But when the question is of any particular OF IMITATION . 13.
... Greek fchools . It is as true of the moderns in this part of the world , that they , in ge- neral , have had their breeding in both the Greek and Latin Latin . But when the question is of any particular OF IMITATION . 13.
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Seite 30 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Seite 43 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Seite 7 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Seite 57 - Oh, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods! Oh, 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death...
Seite 43 - Bear me, some god ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense ; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursued th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it, and form'da dream.
Seite 55 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Seite 17 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Seite 23 - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Seite 20 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Seite 33 - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape. Could he, whofe rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Defcribe or fix one movement of his Mind ? Who faw its fires here rife, and there...