A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer; and sold, 1757 - 76 страници |
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... best writers to make a fhew of their read- ing . Such especially was the age fucceeding to that memorable æra , the revival of letters in these western countries . The fafhion of the time was to inter- weave as much of antient wit as ...
... best writers to make a fhew of their read- ing . Such especially was the age fucceeding to that memorable æra , the revival of letters in these western countries . The fafhion of the time was to inter- weave as much of antient wit as ...
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... best poets boasted of them as their fovereign excellence . And you will eafily credit , for inftance , that B. Johnson was a fer- vile imitator , when you find him on fo many occa fions little better than a painful translator . I ...
... best poets boasted of them as their fovereign excellence . And you will eafily credit , for inftance , that B. Johnson was a fer- vile imitator , when you find him on fo many occa fions little better than a painful translator . I ...
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... best writers in every language , want but little evi- dence to convince us that his great genius did not dif dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man ...
... best writers in every language , want but little evi- dence to convince us that his great genius did not dif dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man ...
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... best models of antiquity , feduc'd into this pre- pofterous method ? The answer , no doubt , is , that they were copying the defign , or diforder rather , of ARIOSTO , the favourite poet of that time . III . Of near akin to this ...
... best models of antiquity , feduc'd into this pre- pofterous method ? The answer , no doubt , is , that they were copying the defign , or diforder rather , of ARIOSTO , the favourite poet of that time . III . Of near akin to this ...
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... best comment on thefe verfes is a paffage in the xth Book of Plato's Republic , where this whole fyftem , of Syrens quiring to the fates , is explained or rather deliver❜d . IV . We have seen a Mark of Imitation , in the allufion of ...
... best comment on thefe verfes is a paffage in the xth Book of Plato's Republic , where this whole fyftem , of Syrens quiring to the fates , is explained or rather deliver❜d . IV . We have seen a Mark of Imitation , in the allufion of ...
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Страница 30 - Paffion, all confus'd ; Still by himfelf abus'd or difabus'd; Created half to rife, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of Truth, in endlefs Error hurl'd: The glory, jeft, and riddle of the world...
Страница 17 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Страница 55 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Страница 7 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Страница 43 - Bear me, some god ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense ; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursued th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it, and form'da dream.
Страница 43 - Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd.
Страница 33 - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape. Could he, whofe rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Defcribe or fix one movement of his Mind ? Who faw its fires here rife, and there...
Страница 23 - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Страница 20 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Страница 13 - All muft be falfe that thwart this One great End ; And all of God, that blefs Mankind or mend.