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Page iii
... fome care of an Orphan of fo much genius and spirit , which its parent seems to have abandoned from the beginning , and fuffered to step into the world naked , unguarded , and unattended . It was upon reading fome of the abusive papers ...
... fome care of an Orphan of fo much genius and spirit , which its parent seems to have abandoned from the beginning , and fuffered to step into the world naked , unguarded , and unattended . It was upon reading fome of the abusive papers ...
Page iv
... fome- thing for fuch a difcovery : A ftratagem , which , would they fairly own , it might not only reconcile them to me , but fcreen them from the refentment of their lawful Superiors , whom they daily abufe , only ( as I charita- bly ...
... fome- thing for fuch a difcovery : A ftratagem , which , would they fairly own , it might not only reconcile them to me , but fcreen them from the refentment of their lawful Superiors , whom they daily abufe , only ( as I charita- bly ...
Page vi
... fome measure prevent it , by preserving at least their Titles , and discovering ( as far as you can depend on the truth of your inform- ation ) the Names of the concealed authors . The The firft objection I have heard made to the Poem ...
... fome measure prevent it , by preserving at least their Titles , and discovering ( as far as you can depend on the truth of your inform- ation ) the Names of the concealed authors . The The firft objection I have heard made to the Poem ...
Page ix
... fome motive worse than ignorance , in the au- thor of the Effay on Criticism ? Be it as it will , the rea- fons of their Admiration and of his Contempt are equal ly fubfifting ; for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were ...
... fome motive worse than ignorance , in the au- thor of the Effay on Criticism ? Be it as it will , the rea- fons of their Admiration and of his Contempt are equal ly fubfifting ; for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were ...
Page xi
... fome of them treated as gently , on their repentance or better merit , as Perrault and Quinault were at laft by BOILEAU . How- In one point I must be allowed to think the charac- ter of our English poet the more amiable . He has not ...
... fome of them treated as gently , on their repentance or better merit , as Perrault and Quinault were at laft by BOILEAU . How- In one point I must be allowed to think the charac- ter of our English poet the more amiable . He has not ...
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Page 272 - 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 273 - See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Page xxiv - Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 190 - Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye owls ! " Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read.
Page 237 - Or chew'd by blind old scholiasts o'er and o'er. The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Page xxiv - As for those which are the most known, and the most received, they are placed in so beautiful a light, and illustrated with such apt allusions, that they have in them all the graces of novelty, and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, still more convinced of their truth and solidity.
Page 239 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Page 228 - When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide.
Page 157 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Page 216 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.