The Dunciad, in four booksC. Bathurst, 1770 |
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Σελίδα xiii
... look into them already opened or accidentally dropt , is held an unge- nerous , if not an immoral act . What then can be thought of the procuring them merely by Fraud , and the printing them merely for Lucre ? We cannot but conclude ...
... look into them already opened or accidentally dropt , is held an unge- nerous , if not an immoral act . What then can be thought of the procuring them merely by Fraud , and the printing them merely for Lucre ? We cannot but conclude ...
Σελίδα 12
... look upon his own perfon ; yet even in those , I cannot fancy myself so extremely like Alexander the Great , as you would perfuade me . If I must be like him , ' tis you will make me fo by compli- menting me into a better opinion of ...
... look upon his own perfon ; yet even in those , I cannot fancy myself so extremely like Alexander the Great , as you would perfuade me . If I must be like him , ' tis you will make me fo by compli- menting me into a better opinion of ...
Σελίδα 14
... look into ourselves , fhould be the most instructive state of life . We fee nothing more commonly , than men , who for the sake of the circumstantial part and mere outside of life , have been half their days rambling out of their nature ...
... look into ourselves , fhould be the most instructive state of life . We fee nothing more commonly , than men , who for the sake of the circumstantial part and mere outside of life , have been half their days rambling out of their nature ...
Σελίδα 20
... look over them again ; for I refolve fuddenly to print fome of them , as a harden'd old gamefter will ( in spite of all former ill ufage by fortune ) push on an ill hand in expectation of recovering himself ; especially fince I have ...
... look over them again ; for I refolve fuddenly to print fome of them , as a harden'd old gamefter will ( in spite of all former ill ufage by fortune ) push on an ill hand in expectation of recovering himself ; especially fince I have ...
Σελίδα 43
... looks more ridiculous than a work , where the thoughts , however different in their own nature , feem all on a level : ' tis like a meadow newly mown , where weeds , grafs , and flowers , are all laid even , and appear undiftinguish'd ...
... looks more ridiculous than a work , where the thoughts , however different in their own nature , feem all on a level : ' tis like a meadow newly mown , where weeds , grafs , and flowers , are all laid even , and appear undiftinguish'd ...
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Σελίδα 68 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Σελίδα 271 - My dear, it is only this, that you will never marry an old man again.
Σελίδα 184 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Σελίδα 131 - To eat Westphalia ham in a morning; ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks; come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what...
Σελίδα 236 - Inarime is an epitome of the whole earth, containing, within the compafs of eighteen miles, a wonderful variety of hills, vales, ragged rocks, fruitful plains, and barren mountains, all thrown together in a moft romantic confufion.
Σελίδα 288 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place.
Σελίδα 244 - I, if we ride on; the motion is an aid to my fancy, a round trot very much awakens my spirits; then jog on apace, and I'll think as hard as I can.
Σελίδα 213 - I distrust neither your will nor your memory, when it is to do good ; and if I ever become troublesome or solicitous, it must not be out of expectation, but out of gratitude.
Σελίδα 49 - It is not enough that nothing offends the Ear, but a good Poet will adapt the very Sounds, as well as Words, to the things he treats of. So that there is (if one may express it so) a Style of Sound. As in describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing; in describing a rough Torrent or Deluge, sonorous and swelling, and so of the rest.
Σελίδα 288 - ... radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is...