The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volym 4J. and R. Tonson, 1760 |
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... fatires , but in his amorous verfes , where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair fex with nice fpeculations of philofophy , when he should engage their hearts , and entertain them with the foftnefs of love . In ...
... fatires , but in his amorous verfes , where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair fex with nice fpeculations of philofophy , when he should engage their hearts , and entertain them with the foftnefs of love . In ...
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... fatires . In the mean time , as a counsellor bred up in the knowledge of the municipal and ftatute laws , may honeftly inform a juft prince how far his prerogative extends ; fo I may be allowed to tell your Lordship , who , by an ...
... fatires . In the mean time , as a counsellor bred up in the knowledge of the municipal and ftatute laws , may honeftly inform a juft prince how far his prerogative extends ; fo I may be allowed to tell your Lordship , who , by an ...
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... fatire ; and Satan in Taffo , excites . Solyman to an attempt by night on the Chriftian camp , and brings an hoft of devils to his affiftance ; yet the arch - angel , in the former example , when Discord was reftive , and would not be ...
... fatire ; and Satan in Taffo , excites . Solyman to an attempt by night on the Chriftian camp , and brings an hoft of devils to his affiftance ; yet the arch - angel , in the former example , when Discord was reftive , and would not be ...
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... fatires of Juvenal and Perfius appearing in this new English drefs , cannot fo properly be infcribed to any man as to ... fatire among the Romans . To defcribe , if not define , the na- ture of that poem , with its feveral qualifications ...
... fatires of Juvenal and Perfius appearing in this new English drefs , cannot fo properly be infcribed to any man as to ... fatire among the Romans . To defcribe , if not define , the na- ture of that poem , with its feveral qualifications ...
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... fatire , is , that the greatness of an heroique poem , beyond that of a tragedy , may easily be difcovered , by obferving how few have attempted that work , in comparison of thofe who have written drama's ; and of those few , how fmall ...
... fatire , is , that the greatness of an heroique poem , beyond that of a tragedy , may easily be difcovered , by obferving how few have attempted that work , in comparison of thofe who have written drama's ; and of those few , how fmall ...
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Sida 308 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 214 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Sida 78 - I take imitation of an author in their sense to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him on the same subject: that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write as he supposes that author would have done had he lived in our age, and in our country.
Sida 8 - As well he may compare the day with night. Night is indeed the province of his reign: Yet all his dark exploits no more contain, Than a spy taken, and a sleeper slain...
Sida 215 - Neither is it true, that this fineness of raillery is offensive. A witty man is tickled while he is hurt in this manner, and a fool feels it not.
Sida 168 - Spenser; he aims at the accomplishment of no one action; he raises up a hero for every one of his adventures, and endows each of them with...
Sida 215 - ... there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly was only belonging to her husband.
Sida 79 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...
Sida 44 - Not so the Golden Age, who fed on fruit, Nor durst with bloody meals their mouths pollute. Then birds in airy space might safely move. And...
Sida 290 - Provide against th' extremities of want ; But womankind, that never knows a mean, Down to the dregs their sinking fortune drain : Hourly they give, and spend, and waste, and wear : And think no pleasure can be bought too dear. There are, who in...