The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Band 17J. Johnson, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, Otridge and Son, J. Sewell, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, R. Faulder, G. and J. Robinson, R. Lea, J. Nunn, W. Cuthell, T. Egerton, ... [and 12 others], 1801 |
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... poets , critics , and orators have compiled and digested the art of ancient poesy , there hath not risen among us one person so publick - spirited , as to per- form the like for the modern . Although it is uni- versally known , that our ...
... poets , critics , and orators have compiled and digested the art of ancient poesy , there hath not risen among us one person so publick - spirited , as to per- form the like for the modern . Although it is uni- versally known , that our ...
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... poets , as bad ones ? Nevertheless , in making gain the principal end of our art , far be it from me to exclude any great ge- niuses of rank or fortune from diverting themselves this way . They ought to be praised no less than those ...
... poets , as bad ones ? Nevertheless , in making gain the principal end of our art , far be it from me to exclude any great ge- niuses of rank or fortune from diverting themselves this way . They ought to be praised no less than those ...
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... poets , our citations are taken from the best , the last , and most correct editions of their works . That which we use of Prince Arthur , is in duodecimo , 1714 , the fourth edition revised . the the bathos , should not sacrifice to it ...
... poets , our citations are taken from the best , the last , and most correct editions of their works . That which we use of Prince Arthur , is in duodecimo , 1714 , the fourth edition revised . the the bathos , should not sacrifice to it ...
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... poems with greater facility , than five or six pages can be produced by an elaborate and servile copier after nature or the ancients . It is affirmed by Quin- tilian , that the same genius , which made Germanicus so great a general ...
... poems with greater facility , than five or six pages can be produced by an elaborate and servile copier after nature or the ancients . It is affirmed by Quin- tilian , that the same genius , which made Germanicus so great a general ...
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... poets say , sure thou art he . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid ...
... poets say , sure thou art he . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her son . There all the lightnings of thy mother's shine , And with a fatal brightness kill in thine . First he is Cupid ...
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Seite 417 - 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 112 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Seite 115 - Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
Seite 113 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Seite 117 - Haste, then, ye spirits! to your charge repair: The flutt'ring fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her fav'rite Lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. To fifty chosen Sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Seite 416 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 111 - Warn'd by the sylph, oh pious maid, beware ! This to disclose is all thy guardian can ; Beware of all, but most beware of man ! He said ; when Shock, who thought she slept too long, Leap'd up, and wak'd his mistress with his tongue.
Seite 416 - But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year...
Seite 59 - THE DESCRIPTIONS. For a tempest.—" Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightning, and of thunder, the loudest you can, quantum sufficit.
Seite 144 - John was quick, and understood his business very well; but no man alive was more careless in looking into his accounts, or more cheated by partners, apprentices, and servants.