The Dunciad, in four booksC. Bathurst, 1770 |
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Σελίδα iii
... these letters were first printed , I wondered WHEN how Curll could come by them , and could not but laugh at the pompous title ; fince whatever you wrote to me was humour , and familiar raillery . As foon as I came from Epfom , I heard ...
... these letters were first printed , I wondered WHEN how Curll could come by them , and could not but laugh at the pompous title ; fince whatever you wrote to me was humour , and familiar raillery . As foon as I came from Epfom , I heard ...
Σελίδα iv
... these feven years . Her writing , That I gave her ' em , to do what he would with ' em , is ftraining the point too far . I thought not of it , nor do I think she did then ; but fevere neceflity which catches hold of a twig , has pro ...
... these feven years . Her writing , That I gave her ' em , to do what he would with ' em , is ftraining the point too far . I thought not of it , nor do I think she did then ; but fevere neceflity which catches hold of a twig , has pro ...
Σελίδα v
... these two years , a new incident from me might enable him to play it on fortwo more . The great value fhe expreffes for all you write , and her paffion for having them , I believe , was what pre- vailed upon me to let her keep them . By ...
... these two years , a new incident from me might enable him to play it on fortwo more . The great value fhe expreffes for all you write , and her paffion for having them , I believe , was what pre- vailed upon me to let her keep them . By ...
Σελίδα xi
... these let- ters . But if an author's hand , like a painter's , be more diftinguishable in a flight sketch than in a finished picture , this very carelessness will make them the better known from fuch counterfeits , as have been , and ...
... these let- ters . But if an author's hand , like a painter's , be more diftinguishable in a flight sketch than in a finished picture , this very carelessness will make them the better known from fuch counterfeits , as have been , and ...
Σελίδα 13
... these are moft in the right , who quietly and eafily refign them- selves over to the gentle reign of dulnefs , which the Wits must do at laft , tho ' after a great deal of noise and refiftance . Ours are a fort of modeft inoffenfive ...
... these are moft in the right , who quietly and eafily refign them- selves over to the gentle reign of dulnefs , which the Wits must do at laft , tho ' after a great deal of noise and refiftance . Ours are a fort of modeft inoffenfive ...
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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...