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... is not , I doubt , of fo good a taste , at leaft , his notion of morals is too modern for my relish : I had put myself to school 1 to other masters , and had learnt , you B 2 to FOREIGN TRAVEL . not poffibly have found me in a fitter ...
... is not , I doubt , of fo good a taste , at leaft , his notion of morals is too modern for my relish : I had put myself to school 1 to other masters , and had learnt , you B 2 to FOREIGN TRAVEL . not poffibly have found me in a fitter ...
Pagina 38
... ftill unfubdued , they quench it forthwith in the strongest wines . or , which suits their taste and defign best , in their own country liquor . THIS THIS fottifh debauch leads to others . My young mafter 38 ON THE USES OF.
... ftill unfubdued , they quench it forthwith in the strongest wines . or , which suits their taste and defign best , in their own country liquor . THIS THIS fottifh debauch leads to others . My young mafter 38 ON THE USES OF.
Pagina 53
... taste in these things , and that the Muses have hitherto fhewn themselves but little in- dulgent to us , THE Courtship , we have paid to them , has been preffing and ardent , if you will but this circumftance , though it may do much ...
... taste in these things , and that the Muses have hitherto fhewn themselves but little in- dulgent to us , THE Courtship , we have paid to them , has been preffing and ardent , if you will but this circumftance , though it may do much ...
Pagina 54
... taste in policy and go- vernment , and have at length fucceeded in this first and highest emulation . It may now be proper to apply the liberty , we have fo happily gained , to other im provements . There is fomething , I have ever ...
... taste in policy and go- vernment , and have at length fucceeded in this first and highest emulation . It may now be proper to apply the liberty , we have fo happily gained , to other im provements . There is fomething , I have ever ...
Pagina 57
... taste and politeness , to its acknowledged fuperiority , I may fay , in the literate and virtuofo character : of which France is an inftance in our days ; as Italy is well known to have been in the days of our forefathers . AND , if ...
... taste and politeness , to its acknowledged fuperiority , I may fay , in the literate and virtuofo character : of which France is an inftance in our days ; as Italy is well known to have been in the days of our forefathers . AND , if ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 265 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Pagina 264 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Pagina 260 - And without more words you will readily apprehend that the fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming than those of the classic fablers. In a word, you will find that the manners they paint, and the superstitions they adopt, are the more poetical for being Gothic.
Pagina 263 - Yet we see thro' all his poetry, where his enthusiasm flames out most, a certain predilection for the legends of chivalry before the fables of Greece. This circumstance, you know, has given offence to the austerer and more mechanical critics.
Pagina 304 - THUS, in the poet's world, all is marvellous and extraordinary; yet not unnatural in one fenfe, as it agrees to the conceptions that are readily entertained of thefe magical and wonder-working natures. THIS trite maxim of following "Nature is further miftaken, in applying it indifcriminately to all forts of poetry.
Pagina 145 - America, and at the Cape of Good Hope. He may then examine how she appears...
Pagina 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Pagina 300 - They think it enough, if they can but bring you to imagine the possibility of them.
Pagina 302 - Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the World besides ourselves, and several species of spirits...
Pagina 269 - ... for all their grievances. This was the real practice, in the days of pure and ancient chivalry. And an image of this practice was afterwards kept up in the...