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... dull droppings of their sense , And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; — Essay , 1. 604 . Warton says , ' It has been suggested that the lines refer to Wycherley ; ' Bowles , -- dreadless of the casti ...
... dull droppings of their sense , And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; — Essay , 1. 604 . Warton says , ' It has been suggested that the lines refer to Wycherley ; ' Bowles , -- dreadless of the casti ...
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... dull ; ' - ' Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain , And charitably let the dull be vain . But Wycherley's bitterest enemy would never have called him dull ; his audacious style , though full of faults , certainly had not that of ...
... dull ; ' - ' Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain , And charitably let the dull be vain . But Wycherley's bitterest enemy would never have called him dull ; his audacious style , though full of faults , certainly had not that of ...
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... dull ' and ' vain ; ' he could not have been thinking of the battered old dramatist who had taken such kindly notice of him , a youth without connections or fortune , and who was neither a dedicator , nor dull , nor vain . Yet , if the ...
... dull ' and ' vain ; ' he could not have been thinking of the battered old dramatist who had taken such kindly notice of him , a youth without connections or fortune , and who was neither a dedicator , nor dull , nor vain . Yet , if the ...
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... dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense , their learning to display , And those explain the meaning quite away . 100 110 You then whose judgment the right course would steer , Know well each Ancient's proper ...
... dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense , their learning to display , And those explain the meaning quite away . 100 110 You then whose judgment the right course would steer , Know well each Ancient's proper ...
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... dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That , shunning faults , one quiet tenor keep , We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep . In ...
... dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That , shunning faults , one quiet tenor keep , We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep . In ...
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Page 115 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 4 - whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep." Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 1 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 149 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 4 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 28 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 115 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 127 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page xl - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 45 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,