The British poets, including translations, Volume 42C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... called men of virtue and honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers ; and some of them had been such old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their persons , as well as their slan- ders ...
... called men of virtue and honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers ; and some of them had been such old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their persons , as well as their slan- ders ...
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... than in their writings ; must poverty make nonsense sacred ? If so , the fame of bad authors would be much better consulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of a hundred had ever been called by his 94 THE DUNCIAD .
... than in their writings ; must poverty make nonsense sacred ? If so , the fame of bad authors would be much better consulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of a hundred had ever been called by his 94 THE DUNCIAD .
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British poets. one of a hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : it is not cha- rity to encourage them in the way they follow , but to get them out of it ; for men are not bun- glers because they ...
British poets. one of a hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : it is not cha- rity to encourage them in the way they follow , but to get them out of it ; for men are not bun- glers because they ...
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... , Dedications , and his Essay 14 Reflections critical and satirical on a Rhapsody , called An Essay on Criticism , printed for Bernard Lintot , octavo . on Dramatic Poetry , not to mention the French critics 104 THE DUNCIAD .
... , Dedications , and his Essay 14 Reflections critical and satirical on a Rhapsody , called An Essay on Criticism , printed for Bernard Lintot , octavo . on Dramatic Poetry , not to mention the French critics 104 THE DUNCIAD .
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... called Sawney , ' That be- cause Prior's Henry and Emma charmed the finest tastes , our author writ his Eloisa in opposition to it , but forgot innocence and virtue : if you take away her tender thoughts , and her fierce desires , all ...
... called Sawney , ' That be- cause Prior's Henry and Emma charmed the finest tastes , our author writ his Eloisa in opposition to it , but forgot innocence and virtue : if you take away her tender thoughts , and her fierce desires , all ...
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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.