An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. PopeT. Cadell, 1782 - 95 pages |
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... hand . A production of this fort , as Pope says of poetry and criticifm , " is the affair of idle men who write in their closets , and of idle men who read there . " The hope , whatever became of the expec- tation , which was indulged ...
... hand . A production of this fort , as Pope says of poetry and criticifm , " is the affair of idle men who write in their closets , and of idle men who read there . " The hope , whatever became of the expec- tation , which was indulged ...
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... hands at Salona , I fhould be no longer urged to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power . " His leisure hours , like Temple's , were employed in building , planting , and gardening ; and fo would Cowley's , if ...
... hands at Salona , I fhould be no longer urged to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power . " His leisure hours , like Temple's , were employed in building , planting , and gardening ; and fo would Cowley's , if ...
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Thomas Tyers. : afforded him , " where Art and Nature go hand in hand with the moft grateful and . pleafing fimplicity . " If a name inferred me- rit , a piece of ground that was occupied by the noble Author of the Characteristics , at ...
Thomas Tyers. : afforded him , " where Art and Nature go hand in hand with the moft grateful and . pleafing fimplicity . " If a name inferred me- rit , a piece of ground that was occupied by the noble Author of the Characteristics , at ...
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... hand , and was under the care of Arbuthnot and St. André . So near was the public being deprived of his valuable life ! The philofopher , fays the excellent Hurd , talks without experience ; the man of the world , without principle ...
... hand , and was under the care of Arbuthnot and St. André . So near was the public being deprived of his valuable life ! The philofopher , fays the excellent Hurd , talks without experience ; the man of the world , without principle ...
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... hand that cannot raife a hovel , may be impious enough to demolish a temple , " fays a living author . This is not meant to be ap- plied to Pope . He had a reputation to lofe , and did not imagine , when he made his ene- my lefs , he ...
... hand that cannot raife a hovel , may be impious enough to demolish a temple , " fays a living author . This is not meant to be ap- plied to Pope . He had a reputation to lofe , and did not imagine , when he made his ene- my lefs , he ...
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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.