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Page xxvii
... Fancy generally borrows her images ) always obtains the earliest credit , and makes for that reason the most lafting impreffions . The fallies of this irregular Faculty are likewife abrupt and inftantaneous , as they are generally the ...
... Fancy generally borrows her images ) always obtains the earliest credit , and makes for that reason the most lafting impreffions . The fallies of this irregular Faculty are likewife abrupt and inftantaneous , as they are generally the ...
Page lxxi
... Fancy affumes the rein , and the operation of reafon is for a moment fufpended . He follows the impulfe of Enthusiasm ; and throws off thofe fimple , but lively . ftrokes of Nature and Paffion , which can only be felt , and are beyond ...
... Fancy affumes the rein , and the operation of reafon is for a moment fufpended . He follows the impulfe of Enthusiasm ; and throws off thofe fimple , but lively . ftrokes of Nature and Paffion , which can only be felt , and are beyond ...
Page lxxxviii
... Fancy to enliven the whole piece with those natural and animating graces which lead us to furvey it with admiration . From the whole therefore it appears , that this Faculty of the mind claims an higher share of merit in the compofition ...
... Fancy to enliven the whole piece with those natural and animating graces which lead us to furvey it with admiration . From the whole therefore it appears , that this Faculty of the mind claims an higher share of merit in the compofition ...
Page xc
... Fancy enlivens with The Reader will meet with many examples of this liberty in the Iliad , fome of which Mr. Pope has judiciously felected in the notes of his tranflation . Milton , in the fame fpirit , compares Satan lying on the lake ...
... Fancy enlivens with The Reader will meet with many examples of this liberty in the Iliad , fome of which Mr. Pope has judiciously felected in the notes of his tranflation . Milton , in the fame fpirit , compares Satan lying on the lake ...
Page xcix
... Fancy is alternately foothed and transported with a delightful fucceffion of the most agreeable objects , whose combi- nation at last suggests an important moral to be impreffed upon the memory . The Ancients appear to have been fully ...
... Fancy is alternately foothed and transported with a delightful fucceffion of the most agreeable objects , whose combi- nation at last suggests an important moral to be impreffed upon the memory . The Ancients appear to have been fully ...
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Page xxxix - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page xi - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page cxxiii - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page c - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 39 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 101 - Nurs'd on the downy lap of ease, Fall prostrate at His throne : Ye princes, rulers, all adore ; Praise Him, ye kings, who makes your power An image of His own. Ye fair, by nature form'd to move, O praise th...
Page 98 - Join, ye loud spheres, the vocal choir ; Thou dazzling orb of liquid fire, The mighty chorus aid : Soon as grey ev'ning gilds the plain, Thou, moon, protract the melting strain.
Page xxxiii - Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glorioufly ; the horfe and his rider hath he thrown into the fea.
Page xxxiv - And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as an heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Page cvi - But wrapt in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure : Know we what fortune yet remains behind ? Know we how long the present shall endure ? WIST.