Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and SheridanArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
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... less communica- tive : or , rather , having done with such amusements , we are resolved to give up what we cannot fairly disown , to the severity of critics , the malice of per- sonal enemies , and the indulgence of friends . We are ...
... less communica- tive : or , rather , having done with such amusements , we are resolved to give up what we cannot fairly disown , to the severity of critics , the malice of per- sonal enemies , and the indulgence of friends . We are ...
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... less any linen ) under it , I shall not say ; but his sword appeared a full yard behind him , and his manner of wearing it was so stiff , that it seemed grown to his thigh . His whole figure was so utterly unlike any thing of this world ...
... less any linen ) under it , I shall not say ; but his sword appeared a full yard behind him , and his manner of wearing it was so stiff , that it seemed grown to his thigh . His whole figure was so utterly unlike any thing of this world ...
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... less nice than our ancestors . If an art is to be estimated by its success , I appeal to experience , whether there have not been , in proportion to their number , as many starving good poets as bad ones ? Nevertheless , in making gain ...
... less nice than our ancestors . If an art is to be estimated by its success , I appeal to experience , whether there have not been , in proportion to their number , as many starving good poets as bad ones ? Nevertheless , in making gain ...
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... less copious ge- niuses under proper classes , and ( the better to give their pictures to the reader ) under the names of ani- mals of some sort or other ; whereby he will be enabled , at the first sight of such as shall daily come ...
... less copious ge- niuses under proper classes , and ( the better to give their pictures to the reader ) under the names of ani- mals of some sort or other ; whereby he will be enabled , at the first sight of such as shall daily come ...
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... this line's being borrowed from Seneca , makes the idea less nonsensical ? The fact only proves , that poor Theobald got his absurdity at second - hand So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be 48 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
... this line's being borrowed from Seneca , makes the idea less nonsensical ? The fact only proves , that poor Theobald got his absurdity at second - hand So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be 48 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 340 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 341 - 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 67 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Seite 159 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Seite 150 - The fluttering 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 159 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Seite 149 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Seite 153 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen: He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
Seite 89 - French have already laid down many mechanical rules for compositions of this sort, but at the same time they cut off almost all undertakers from the possibility of ever performing them; for the first qualification they unanimously require in a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made "without a genius", nay, without learning or much reading.
Seite 176 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.