The British poets, including translations, Volume 42C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Page 49
... Dennis swear ' No Lord's anointed , but a Russian bear . ' Not with such majesty , such bold relief , The forms august of king , or conquering chief , E'er swell'd on marble , as in verse have shined ( In polish'd verse ) the manners ...
... Dennis swear ' No Lord's anointed , but a Russian bear . ' Not with such majesty , such bold relief , The forms august of king , or conquering chief , E'er swell'd on marble , as in verse have shined ( In polish'd verse ) the manners ...
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... DENNIS , Remarks on Prince Arthur . Í CANNOT but think it the most reasonable thing in the world to distinguish good writers , by dis- couraging the bad : nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom ...
... DENNIS , Remarks on Prince Arthur . Í CANNOT but think it the most reasonable thing in the world to distinguish good writers , by dis- couraging the bad : nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom ...
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... he was educated at home ; another , that he was bred at 1 Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets , Vol . II . in his life . 2 Dennis's Reflections on the Essay on Criticism , p . 4 . St. Omer's by Jesuits ; a third3 , not at 102 THE DUNCIAD .
... he was educated at home ; another , that he was bred at 1 Giles Jacob's Lives of the Poets , Vol . II . in his life . 2 Dennis's Reflections on the Essay on Criticism , p . 4 . St. Omer's by Jesuits ; a third3 , not at 102 THE DUNCIAD .
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... editions of his Key , he left out this assertion , and affirmed ( in the Curliad , p . 4 and 8 , ) that it was written by Dennis only . poet till authors can determine among themselves what parents or TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS . 103.
... editions of his Key , he left out this assertion , and affirmed ( in the Curliad , p . 4 and 8 , ) that it was written by Dennis only . poet till authors can determine among themselves what parents or TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS . 103.
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... DENNIS . His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive ; his expressions absurd , his numbers harsh and unmusical , his rhymes trivial and common . — Instead of majesty , we have something that is ...
... DENNIS . His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive ; his expressions absurd , his numbers harsh and unmusical , his rhymes trivial and common . — Instead of majesty , we have something that is ...
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Page 230 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 210 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Page 53 - Indebted to no prince or peer alive, Sure I should want the care of ten Monroes,* 70 If I would scribble rather than repose. Years following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away ; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...
Page 47 - But fill their purse, our poets' work is done, Alike to them by pathos or by pun. O, you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage, by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose ; 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
Page 264 - Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows 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 197 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 250 - For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it: So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Page 150 - He was not without hopes, that, by manifesting the dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them, either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the
Page 30 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.' Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech.
Page 40 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forgot his Epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.