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... manner very beautifully described in the characters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the essay of which I am now speaking . Since I have mentioned Longinus , who in his reflections has given us ...
... manner very beautifully described in the characters of Horace , Petronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the essay of which I am now speaking . Since I have mentioned Longinus , who in his reflections has given us ...
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... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean or trivial for the entertainment . of reasonable creatures . As to the diversions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean or trivial for the entertainment . of reasonable creatures . As to the diversions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
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... manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once , to shew he is full of business , and yet is not so taken up as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not ...
... manners ; he is the same civil person he ever was ; he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once , to shew he is full of business , and yet is not so taken up as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not ...
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... manners are as natural to ' them as his delights , method of thinking , and mode ' of living , were formerly to him and his friends . ' But the mischief is , he looks upon the same kind ' of errors which he himself was guilty of with an ...
... manners are as natural to ' them as his delights , method of thinking , and mode ' of living , were formerly to him and his friends . ' But the mischief is , he looks upon the same kind ' of errors which he himself was guilty of with an ...
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... manner of obligation upon you ? While I indulge your insensibility I am doing nothing ; if you favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and trans- ' porting raptures upon ...
... manner of obligation upon you ? While I indulge your insensibility I am doing nothing ; if you favour my passion , you are bestowing bright desires , gay hopes , generous cares , noble resolutions , and trans- ' porting raptures upon ...
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Page 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Page 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Page 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.