Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... first reading preju- diced in favour of a book in which we find it . But how often do thofe writers who want invention , have recourse to the beauties of compofition , to hide their poverty of thought ? I have already obferved , that ...
... first reading preju- diced in favour of a book in which we find it . But how often do thofe writers who want invention , have recourse to the beauties of compofition , to hide their poverty of thought ? I have already obferved , that ...
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... first profeffion was that of bearing arms : Virgil was a fort of a jockey ; at leaft , we read in his life that he made himfelf known to Au- guftus by his fecrets for the curing of horfes , for which this great poet was introduced into ...
... first profeffion was that of bearing arms : Virgil was a fort of a jockey ; at leaft , we read in his life that he made himfelf known to Au- guftus by his fecrets for the curing of horfes , for which this great poet was introduced into ...
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... first tragedies . tragedies . La Fontaine's employment among the waters and fo- refts , ought to have deftined him for the planting and cutting of trees , and not for making them fpeak . If Mon- fieur L'Huillier , Chapelle's father ...
... first tragedies . tragedies . La Fontaine's employment among the waters and fo- refts , ought to have deftined him for the planting and cutting of trees , and not for making them fpeak . If Mon- fieur L'Huillier , Chapelle's father ...
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... first dawnings of that genius , which after- wards broke out with fo bright a fplen dor * . The paffion which the Marshal Turenne had for war , from his very fancy , is well known : his father thought , from the tenderness of his ...
... first dawnings of that genius , which after- wards broke out with fo bright a fplen dor * . The paffion which the Marshal Turenne had for war , from his very fancy , is well known : his father thought , from the tenderness of his ...
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... first , it is a perfection which re- quires time , inftruction , and experience . A young man uninftructed in the arts of mufic and painting , let his natural sensi- bility be ever fo quick and lively , will not immediately distinguish ...
... first , it is a perfection which re- quires time , inftruction , and experience . A young man uninftructed in the arts of mufic and painting , let his natural sensi- bility be ever fo quick and lively , will not immediately distinguish ...
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abfurd action Addiſon admire Æneid affertion Aladin alfo alſo antients Ariofto beauties beſt Boffu Boileau Camoens Ceuta cifm compofed compofition confequence confifts criticiſm defcription defects deferves defign difcover difplays Effais fur elegant enthuſiaſm epic poem epic poetry excellent expref fable fame fays fenfibility fentiments fhall fhew fhining fhould fimple fingle firft firſt fome fometimes fpecies fpirit ftanza ftriking ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuperior genius Gierufalemme greateſt Henriade hero himſelf Homer Iliad imagination inftances itſelf juft leaft Leonidas lyric poetry Milton moft Monf moſt mufic muft muſt nature nius noble numbers obferved occafions ouvrages paffages paffing paffions painting Paradife Loft Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Poeme Epique poet poetic poetry praiſe Priam profeffion qu'il racter reader reafon refpect reft Shakeſpear ſhall ſome ſpeak Taffo tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion tout uſe vaft verfe Virgil Voltaire whofe wrote καὶ
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Sida 173 - 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.
Sida 117 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Sida 172 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Sida 184 - Thy banks ? — alas, is this the boafted fcene, This dreary, wide, uncultivated plain, Where fick'ning Nature wears a fainter green, And Defolation fpreads her torpid reign ? Is this the fcene where Freedom breath'd, Her copious horn where Plenty wreath'd. And health at opening day Bade all her rofeate breezes fly, To wake the fons of Induftry, And make their fields more gay?
Sida 84 - Every one has something so singularly his own that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features than the poet has by their manners.
Sida 116 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side...
Sida 177 - Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?
Sida 112 - Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood and them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where only what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would?
Sida 174 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Sida 152 - They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials of Nature's production, for elevating his fubject, and making it interefting.