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Pagina xv
... mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting fpecies of compofition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The ...
... mentioned cri- tics have remarked the circumftance that gave origin to the opinion that any golden age was intended . Theocritus , the father and the model of this enchanting fpecies of compofition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The ...
Pagina 7
... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the supposed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the ima- gination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Mufes . THEOCRITUS , Idyll ...
... mention of places remarkably roman- tic , the supposed habitation of Druids , bards , and wizards , is far more pleafing to the ima- gination , than the obvious introduction of Cam and Ifis , as feats of the Mufes . THEOCRITUS , Idyll ...
Pagina 28
... mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , + had been particular and pic- turesque , instead ...
... mentioned lines , are worthy the pencil of Rubens or Julio Romano : it may , perhaps , however be wished that the epithets barbarous ( difcord ) , mad ( ambition ) , hateful ( envy ) , + had been particular and pic- turesque , instead ...
Pagina 31
... mentioned the ruftic monuments and simple epitaphs of the swains , the amiable poet falls into a very natural re- flection : For who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of ...
... mentioned the ruftic monuments and simple epitaphs of the swains , the amiable poet falls into a very natural re- flection : For who , to dumb forgetfulness a prey , This pleasing anxious being e'er refign'd , Left the warm precincts of ...
Pagina 44
... mentioned , The quail that clamours for his running mate ? Or the following natural image , at the fame time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening shower of vegetable down Amufive floats . Where ...
... mentioned , The quail that clamours for his running mate ? Or the following natural image , at the fame time of the year ? Wide o'er the thiftly lawn , as fwells the breeze , A whitening shower of vegetable down Amufive floats . Where ...
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Abelard Addiſon alfo almoſt alſo ancient beautiful becauſe beſt Boileau cauſe character circumſtances cloſe compofition Corneille criticiſm defcribed defign deſcription Domenichino Dryden Eclogue Effay elegant Eloifa Engliſh EPISTLE eſpecially Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays feem fentiments fhall firft firſt fome fpecies ftory ftrokes fubject fublime fuch fufficient genius greateſt himſelf hiſtory Iliad images imagination inferted inftance itſelf Jane Shore juſt laft laſt Milton moft moſt mufic muſt nature numbers obfervations occafion Ovid paffage paffion pathetic perfon Petrarch pieces Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poefy poem poet poetical poetry POPE praiſes preſent profe publiſhed quæ Quintilian Racine raiſed reaſon remarkable repreſent reſemblance reſpect ſay ſcene ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſpirit ſtage ſtanza ſtate ſtory ſtriking ſuch taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflation uſed verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe writing
Populaire passages
Pagina 175 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Pagina 144 - Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give( And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away...
Pagina 81 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Pagina 152 - Durfey's Tales. With him most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Name a new play, and he's the poet's friend ; Nay, show'd his faults — but when would poets mend? No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd, Nor is Paul's church more safe than Paul's churchyard: Nay, fly to altars ; there they'll talk you dead ; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Pagina 131 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Pagina 319 - May one kind grave unite each hapless name, And graft my love immortal on thy fame. Then, ages hence, when all my woes are o'er...
Pagina 299 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Pagina 41 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Pagina 126 - Some figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their light, or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace. A prudent chief not always must display 175 His pow'rs, in equal ranks, and fair array, But with th' occasion and the place comply, Conceal his force, nay seem sometimes to fly.
Pagina 295 - Repentant sighs, and voluntary pains: Ye rugged rocks! which holy knees have worn; Ye grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid thorn! .-• Shrines! where their vigils pale-ey'd virgins keep, And pitying saints, whose statues learn to weep! Tho' cold like you, unmov'd and silent grown, I have not yet forgot myself to stone.