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... IMITATIONS , will be much difap- pointed . Our Author uses the Roman Poet for little more than his canvas : And if the old defign or co- louring chance to fuit his purpose , it is well : if not , he employs his own , without fcruple or ...
... IMITATIONS , will be much difap- pointed . Our Author uses the Roman Poet for little more than his canvas : And if the old defign or co- louring chance to fuit his purpose , it is well : if not , he employs his own , without fcruple or ...
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... imitate , he has informed us in his Advertisement . To which we may add , that this fort of Imitations , which are of the nature of Parodies , add reflected grace and fplendor on original wit . Befides , he deem'd it more modeft to give ...
... imitate , he has informed us in his Advertisement . To which we may add , that this fort of Imitations , which are of the nature of Parodies , add reflected grace and fplendor on original wit . Befides , he deem'd it more modeft to give ...
Seite 38
... - tice to the age , or in vindication of their own Characters ) has the fame fource . They cover their envy to a fuperior genius , in lamenting the feverity of his Pen . Plate XVII . Vol . IV . faang p.39 . 38 Book II . IMITATIONS.
... - tice to the age , or in vindication of their own Characters ) has the fame fource . They cover their envy to a fuperior genius , in lamenting the feverity of his Pen . Plate XVII . Vol . IV . faang p.39 . 38 Book II . IMITATIONS.
Seite 39
... humourous part of the answer, Peream maky Ji non Optimum eraty and has lost the grace, by not imitating the conciseness, of njcrum nequeo dormire, T. s Ter uncti Transnanto Tiberim, somno quibus est opus * D 4 Sar. I. OF HORACE. 39.
... humourous part of the answer, Peream maky Ji non Optimum eraty and has lost the grace, by not imitating the conciseness, of njcrum nequeo dormire, T. s Ter uncti Transnanto Tiberim, somno quibus est opus * D 4 Sar. I. OF HORACE. 39.
Seite 39
... omitted the most humourous part of the answer , Peream male , fi non Optimum erat , and has left the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of verum nequeo dormire . T. f Ter un & ti Tranfnanto Tiberim , fomno D 4 Sat. I. OF HORACE .
... omitted the most humourous part of the answer , Peream male , fi non Optimum erat , and has left the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of verum nequeo dormire . T. f Ter un & ti Tranfnanto Tiberim , fomno D 4 Sat. I. OF HORACE .
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Seite 5 - Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Seite 255 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 17 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 24 - Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord.
Seite 231 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Seite 5 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 16 - 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 29 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Seite 155 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Seite 23 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence...