Poems on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes, Том 1George Pearch, 1769 - 172 страници |
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... most difficult ( at least in many cafes ) either to detect , or to rectify , is the A ticism . This difficulty arifeth partly from that series of objects , almost perpetually diverfified , which the various researches of this Art ...
... most difficult ( at least in many cafes ) either to detect , or to rectify , is the A ticism . This difficulty arifeth partly from that series of objects , almost perpetually diverfified , which the various researches of this Art ...
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In Two Volumes John Ogilvie ! where the most unexceptionable paffages are selected for this purpose ; fo , where the contrary is really the cafe , the Reader may receive an unfavourable prepoffeffion from having fuch objects only placed ...
In Two Volumes John Ogilvie ! where the most unexceptionable paffages are selected for this purpose ; fo , where the contrary is really the cafe , the Reader may receive an unfavourable prepoffeffion from having fuch objects only placed ...
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... most fimple and confpicuous , rather than upon fuch as difcover the Writer's difcernment and perfpicuity : -in the latter , when , amidst the infinite va- . riety of events and of characters , those are selected , as , exhibiting a ...
... most fimple and confpicuous , rather than upon fuch as difcover the Writer's difcernment and perfpicuity : -in the latter , when , amidst the infinite va- . riety of events and of characters , those are selected , as , exhibiting a ...
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... as a compleat fpecimen of a work distinguished by the most striking and diversified expreffions . The Strength of the Painter's imagination 1 may indeed be rendered confpicuous from this felection of 5 may iv PREFACE .
... as a compleat fpecimen of a work distinguished by the most striking and diversified expreffions . The Strength of the Painter's imagination 1 may indeed be rendered confpicuous from this felection of 5 may iv PREFACE .
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... It is the natural effect of these causes , that as a discourse , whose parts in general are difpro- portioned , may be fhewn in a favourable point of view , VOL . I. a where 1 [ I where the most unexceptionable paffages are selected.
... It is the natural effect of these causes , that as a discourse , whose parts in general are difpro- portioned , may be fhewn in a favourable point of view , VOL . I. a where 1 [ I where the most unexceptionable paffages are selected.
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Страница xxxix - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Страница xi - 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.
Страница cxxiii - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Страница c - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Страница 39 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Страница 101 - Nurs'd on the downy lap of ease, Fall prostrate at His throne : Ye princes, rulers, all adore ; Praise Him, ye kings, who makes your power An image of His own. Ye fair, by nature form'd to move, O praise th...
Страница 98 - Join, ye loud spheres, the vocal choir ; Thou dazzling orb of liquid fire, The mighty chorus aid : Soon as grey ev'ning gilds the plain, Thou, moon, protract the melting strain.
Страница xxxiii - Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glorioufly ; the horfe and his rider hath he thrown into the fea.
Страница xxxiv - And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as an heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Страница cvi - But wrapt in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure : Know we what fortune yet remains behind ? Know we how long the present shall endure ? WIST.