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... Fontenelle , the living glory of the French . It is enough for him to have excelled his master Lucian , without attempting to compare our miserable age with that of Virgil , or Theocritus . Let me only add , for his reputation , -Si ...
... Fontenelle , the living glory of the French . It is enough for him to have excelled his master Lucian , without attempting to compare our miserable age with that of Virgil , or Theocritus . Let me only add , for his reputation , -Si ...
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... FONTENELLE . BY WILLIAM WALSH , Esq . As the writings of greatest antiquity are in verse , so , of all sorts of poetry , pastorals seem the most ancient ; being formed upon the model of the first innocence and simplicity , which the ...
... FONTENELLE . BY WILLIAM WALSH , Esq . As the writings of greatest antiquity are in verse , so , of all sorts of poetry , pastorals seem the most ancient ; being formed upon the model of the first innocence and simplicity , which the ...
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... Fontenelle , who , to the disgrace of reason , as himself ingenuously owns , first built his house , and then studied architecture ; I mean , first composed his Eclogues , and then studied the rules . In answer to this , we may observe ...
... Fontenelle , who , to the disgrace of reason , as himself ingenuously owns , first built his house , and then studied architecture ; I mean , first composed his Eclogues , and then studied the rules . In answer to this , we may observe ...
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... Fontenelle had perused the frag- ments of the Phoenician antiquity , traced the pro- gress of learning through the ancient Greek wri- ters , or so much as consulted his learned country- man Huetius , he would have found , ( which falls ...
... Fontenelle had perused the frag- ments of the Phoenician antiquity , traced the pro- gress of learning through the ancient Greek wri- ters , or so much as consulted his learned country- man Huetius , he would have found , ( which falls ...
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... Fontenelle one of their number , who pretend to censure the Greeks , without being able to dis- tinguish Greek from Ephesian characters , I shall here set down the lines from which Virgil took this passage , though none of the ...
... Fontenelle one of their number , who pretend to censure the Greeks , without being able to dis- tinguish Greek from Ephesian characters , I shall here set down the lines from which Virgil took this passage , though none of the ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes ..., Volym 18 John Dryden Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2021 |
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Sida 26 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Sida 178 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 26 - And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Sida 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Sida 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Sida 102 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Sida 95 - ... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.
Sida 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 386 - The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finished course : Saturnian times Roll round again ; and mighty years, begun From their first orb, in radiant circles run. The base degenerate iron offspring ends : A golden progeny from heaven descends.