Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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Σελίδα 2
... pleasure , fays the Rambler , has invited numbers without number to try their skill in paftoral per- formances , in which they have generally fucceeded after the manner of other imi- tators , tranfmitting the fame images in the fame ...
... pleasure , fays the Rambler , has invited numbers without number to try their skill in paftoral per- formances , in which they have generally fucceeded after the manner of other imi- tators , tranfmitting the fame images in the fame ...
Σελίδα 8
... pleasures with their rural cares , and especially with the folicitude of feeding their tender flocks , is far from being the life of any of our peasants t . + Reflexions critiques fur la Poefie & Pein- ture , par Du Bos , tom . i , fect ...
... pleasures with their rural cares , and especially with the folicitude of feeding their tender flocks , is far from being the life of any of our peasants t . + Reflexions critiques fur la Poefie & Pein- ture , par Du Bos , tom . i , fect ...
Σελίδα 11
... Pope lengthened the abruptnefs of Waller , and at the fame time contracted the exuberance of Dryden . Effay on the writings and genius of Pope , p . 10 . but but what pleasure can we receive from an imitation of ( II )
... Pope lengthened the abruptnefs of Waller , and at the fame time contracted the exuberance of Dryden . Effay on the writings and genius of Pope , p . 10 . but but what pleasure can we receive from an imitation of ( II )
Σελίδα 12
but what pleasure can we receive from an imitation of the language and ruftic cuftoms of fhepherds , without being en- livened with any variety of incidents , or harmony of verfification ? Five hun- dred fuch lines as thefe , I rue the ...
but what pleasure can we receive from an imitation of the language and ruftic cuftoms of fhepherds , without being en- livened with any variety of incidents , or harmony of verfification ? Five hun- dred fuch lines as thefe , I rue the ...
Σελίδα 50
... as it is in every thing elfe . Thus contemptible as it is , it has produced two things of vaft importance , profit and pleasure . Voltaire's Works , vol . xvii . p . 36 . Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury ( '50 ) *
... as it is in every thing elfe . Thus contemptible as it is , it has produced two things of vaft importance , profit and pleasure . Voltaire's Works , vol . xvii . p . 36 . Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury ( '50 ) *
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abfurd abuſe Addiſon admirable againſt Alcman alfo almoſt anſwer beautiful beſt Boileau celebrated character Charles Dryden compofed compofitions confiderable contain converfation deferves defire difplay Dryden Dunciad Eclogues effays excellent expreffion expreffive faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe ferve feveral fhall fhepherds fhould filk filly fince fineſt firft fome foon foul fpeaks fpirit ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fuperior fure genius Giorgione greateſt himſelf honour houſe Houyhnhnms Hudibras humour imitation inftances juft laft language laſt Lord Halifax Lord Harvey merit moft moſt mufic muft muſt never numbers obferved paffage paffed paffions paftoral painting perfon pieces pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent publiſhed purpoſe racter Rambler refpect ribaldry ridicule rife ſeveral Shakeſpear ſome ſpeak taſte thefe themſelves Theſe lines thing thofe thoſe thouſand tion tranflation underſtanding univerfally uſed Verfe verfification Verſe whofe whoſe writings wrote Zimri
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Σελίδα 86 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Σελίδα 175 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Σελίδα 55 - 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...
Σελίδα 56 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Σελίδα 167 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
Σελίδα 36 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Σελίδα 169 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
Σελίδα 36 - Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Σελίδα 13 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Σελίδα 34 - If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by the change he has made, from having no religion, to choose one of the worst.