An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. PopeT. Cadell, 1782 - 95 pages |
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Thomas Tyers. My friend , this shape which you and Curll 66 admire , " Came not from Ammon's fon , but from my " fire ; " as he expreffes himself , in the first edition of his epistle to Arbuthnot . He was protuberant behind and before ...
Thomas Tyers. My friend , this shape which you and Curll 66 admire , " Came not from Ammon's fon , but from my " fire ; " as he expreffes himself , in the first edition of his epistle to Arbuthnot . He was protuberant behind and before ...
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... of time with as much rapture as of Milton's Garden of Eden , or of Taffo's enchanted garden of Armida . Tem- ple , who is much inclined to admire the works C 3 works and wisdom of the Chiefe ( for Burnet describes [ 21 ]
... of time with as much rapture as of Milton's Garden of Eden , or of Taffo's enchanted garden of Armida . Tem- ple , who is much inclined to admire the works C 3 works and wisdom of the Chiefe ( for Burnet describes [ 21 ]
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... admired , few will study a dead and antiquarian lan- guage , for the fake of the prologue or tale of the Wife of Bath , or even the epic story of Palamon and Arcite . The tranflation in quef- tion tion was fitter for the youth of Pope ...
... admired , few will study a dead and antiquarian lan- guage , for the fake of the prologue or tale of the Wife of Bath , or even the epic story of Palamon and Arcite . The tranflation in quef- tion tion was fitter for the youth of Pope ...
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... or the king . " Except to the chofen few who can tafte the flavour of the Greek dialects , our English Homer is preferable to the original , more read , better un- derftood , and more admired . We are Tro- jans [ 52 ]
... or the king . " Except to the chofen few who can tafte the flavour of the Greek dialects , our English Homer is preferable to the original , more read , better un- derftood , and more admired . We are Tro- jans [ 52 ]
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Thomas Tyers. derftood , and more admired . We are Tro- jans , and not Greeks . The present obfer- vator ( he does not mean to be a libeller on the Greek language ) approves of the idea of that judge of both languages , the critical and ...
Thomas Tyers. derftood , and more admired . We are Tro- jans , and not Greeks . The present obfer- vator ( he does not mean to be a libeller on the Greek language ) approves of the idea of that judge of both languages , the critical and ...
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Page 18 - The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb, are managed with exquisite judgment ; and though Lord Peterborough assisted him " To form his quincunx, and to rank his vines...
Page 65 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 124 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 54 - Asiaticks, which are reposited in our publick libraries, were printed with the usual advantage of notes and illustrations, and if the languages of the Eastern nations were studied in our great seminaries of learning, where every other branch of useful knowledge is taught to perfection, a new and ample field would be opened for speculation; we should have a more extensive insight into the history of the human mind ; we should be furnished with a new set of images and similitudes; and a number of excellent...
Page 90 - As to the future grandeur of America, and its being a rising empire under one head, whether republican or monarchical, it is one of the idlest and most visionary notions that ever was conceived even by writers of romance.
Page 68 - England, and at present of all the world. I hope you are acquainted enough with the English tongue to be sensible of all the charms of his works. For my part I look...
Page 98 - Tire little nightingale. His manners were ' delicate, eafy, and engaging : and he treated his friends with a politenefs that charmed, and a generofity that was much to his honour. Every gueft was made happy within his doors. Pleafure dwelt under his roof, and t Elegance Elegance prefided at his table.
Page 42 - That man has a malignant and ungenerous heart ; and he is base enough to assume the mask of a moralist, in order to decry human nature, and to give a decent vent to his hatred of man and woman kind.
Page 99 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
Page 36 - I feem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a figh I wifh it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More fenfe, than I can do in fix, It gives me fuch a jealous fit, I cry, pox take him and his wit.