prefaces biographical and critical to the works of the english poets1781 |
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... elegance enough , but fane is too heroick to be pitied . The Univerfal Paffion is indeed a very great performance . It is faid to be a feries of Epigrams ; but if it be , it is what the author intended : his endeavour was at the ...
... elegance enough , but fane is too heroick to be pitied . The Univerfal Paffion is indeed a very great performance . It is faid to be a feries of Epigrams ; but if it be , it is what the author intended : his endeavour was at the ...
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... elegant . The . caft of diction feems to be copied from Thomfon , whofe Seasons were then in their full bloffom of reputation . He has Thomfon's beauties and his faults . His poem on Verbal Criticism ( 1733 ) was written to pay court to ...
... elegant . The . caft of diction feems to be copied from Thomfon , whofe Seasons were then in their full bloffom of reputation . He has Thomfon's beauties and his faults . His poem on Verbal Criticism ( 1733 ) was written to pay court to ...
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... elegance , ' perhaps with fome affectation ; but with so much more knowledge of hiftory than of science , that when he afterwards un- dertook the Life of Marlborough , War- burton remarked , that he might per- haps forget that ...
... elegance , ' perhaps with fome affectation ; but with so much more knowledge of hiftory than of science , that when he afterwards un- dertook the Life of Marlborough , War- burton remarked , that he might per- haps forget that ...
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... Amyntor and Theodora ( 1747 ) , a long ftory in blank verfe ; in which it cannot be denied that there is copioufness and elegance of language , vigour of fent ment , and imagery well adapted to take poffeffion of MALLET . 11.
... Amyntor and Theodora ( 1747 ) , a long ftory in blank verfe ; in which it cannot be denied that there is copioufness and elegance of language , vigour of fent ment , and imagery well adapted to take poffeffion of MALLET . 11.
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... elegant and eafy . The rest of his character may , without injury to his memory , fink into filence . As a writer , he cannot be placed in any high clafs . There is no fpecies of compofition in which he was eminent . F " His Dramas had ...
... elegant and eafy . The rest of his character may , without injury to his memory , fink into filence . As a writer , he cannot be placed in any high clafs . There is no fpecies of compofition in which he was eminent . F " His Dramas had ...
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18 ページ - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
17 ページ - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
6 ページ - Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
60 ページ - O how divine ! to tread the milky way, To the bright palace of the lord of day ; His court admire, or for his favour sue, Or leagues of friendship with his saints renew...
9 ページ - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
23 ページ - The Prospect of Eton College suggests nothing to Gray, which every beholder does not equally think and feel.
43 ページ - Short was his joy. He little knew The power of Magic was no fable ; Out of the window, whisk, they flew, But left a spell upon the table.
13 ページ - Westmoreland and Cumberland. He that reads his epistolary narration wishes, that to travel, and to tell his travels, had been more of his employment ; but it is by studying at home that we must obtain the ability of travelling with intelligence and improvement.
17 ページ - twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
6 ページ - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.