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Pagina xviii
... Some verfes of my friend Mr. W. Toulmin , bantering a mistake , committed by me at page 326 of my former volume , will form an agreable termination of this Preface : By a Perfon of no Quality , on reading Mr. Wakefield's Criticifms , on ...
... Some verfes of my friend Mr. W. Toulmin , bantering a mistake , committed by me at page 326 of my former volume , will form an agreable termination of this Preface : By a Perfon of no Quality , on reading Mr. Wakefield's Criticifms , on ...
Pagina 8
... Some God conduct you to these blissful feats : which he doubtless , afterwards , thought of too heathenish an afpect . Ver . 8o . And winds fhall waft it to the pow'rs above . Tate's King Lear : winds catch the found , And waft it on ...
... Some God conduct you to these blissful feats : which he doubtless , afterwards , thought of too heathenish an afpect . Ver . 8o . And winds fhall waft it to the pow'rs above . Tate's King Lear : winds catch the found , And waft it on ...
Pagina 30
... Some fhew their gaily - gilded train , Quick - glancing to the fun . This part of the poem much refembles the Mofella of Aufonius , where , if I mistake not , a very appofite verse in every refpect , ver . 88. fhould thus be written ...
... Some fhew their gaily - gilded train , Quick - glancing to the fun . This part of the poem much refembles the Mofella of Aufonius , where , if I mistake not , a very appofite verse in every refpect , ver . 88. fhould thus be written ...
Pagina 45
... Some pity let a fuppliant princess move , Whose only fault was an excess of love . Ver . 130. And angels lean from heav'n to hear . He feems to have had in view the conclufion of Milton's Comus : Mortals , Mortals , that would follow me ...
... Some pity let a fuppliant princess move , Whose only fault was an excess of love . Ver . 130. And angels lean from heav'n to hear . He feems to have had in view the conclufion of Milton's Comus : Mortals , Mortals , that would follow me ...
Pagina 51
... some measure the continuity of the conftruction was well fupplanted , I think , by the prefent reading . Ver . 100. This entire paffage feems to be constructed on fome remarks of Dryden , in his Dedication to Ovid : 66 Formerly the ...
... some measure the continuity of the conftruction was well fupplanted , I think , by the prefent reading . Ver . 100. This entire paffage feems to be constructed on fome remarks of Dryden , in his Dedication to Ovid : 66 Formerly the ...
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Pagina 215 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Pagina 265 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 226 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Pagina 279 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Pagina 195 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Pagina 51 - 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 161 - Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Pagina 14 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Pagina 286 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Pagina 320 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...