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... amongst the moderns , which are extremely different from ours , by reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presumption to dedicate to your lordship - a very unfinished piece , I must confess , and which only can be ...
... amongst the moderns , which are extremely different from ours , by reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presumption to dedicate to your lordship - a very unfinished piece , I must confess , and which only can be ...
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... amongst men , and the most vir- tuous amongst women . Heaven be praised , our common libellers are as free from the imputation of wit as of morality ; and therefore whatever mischief they have design- ed , they have performed but little ...
... amongst men , and the most vir- tuous amongst women . Heaven be praised , our common libellers are as free from the imputation of wit as of morality ; and therefore whatever mischief they have design- ed , they have performed but little ...
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... amongst the ignorant , but the sceptres on the guineas show the difference . * That your lordship is formed by nature for this supremacy , I could easily prove , ( were it not already granted by the world , ) from the distinguishing ...
... amongst the ignorant , but the sceptres on the guineas show the difference . * That your lordship is formed by nature for this supremacy , I could easily prove , ( were it not already granted by the world , ) from the distinguishing ...
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... amongst the Greeks ; that of Au- gustus , for heroic , lyric , dramatic , elegiac , and in- deed all sorts of poetry , in the persons of Virgil , Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the ...
... amongst the Greeks ; that of Au- gustus , for heroic , lyric , dramatic , elegiac , and in- deed all sorts of poetry , in the persons of Virgil , Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the ...
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... amongst the moderns , Ariosto neither designed just- ly , nor observed any unity of action , or compass of time , or moderation in the vastness of his draught : his style is luxurious , without majesty or decency , and his adventures ...
... amongst the moderns , Ariosto neither designed just- ly , nor observed any unity of action , or compass of time , or moderation in the vastness of his draught : his style is luxurious , without majesty or decency , and his adventures ...
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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.