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... poets , than among any other set of men . As there are none more ambitious of fame , than those who are conversant in poetry , it is very natu- ral for such as have not succeeded in it to depreci- ate the works of those who have . For ...
... poets , than among any other set of men . As there are none more ambitious of fame , than those who are conversant in poetry , it is very natu- ral for such as have not succeeded in it to depreci- ate the works of those who have . For ...
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... poet , without attacking the reputation of all his bro- thers in the art . The ignorance of the moderns , the scribblers of the age , the decay of poetry , are the topics of detraction , with which he makes his en- trance into the world ...
... poet , without attacking the reputation of all his bro- thers in the art . The ignorance of the moderns , the scribblers of the age , the decay of poetry , are the topics of detraction , with which he makes his en- trance into the world ...
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... poets of the Au- gustan age . His way of expressing and applying them , not his invention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . For this reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who ...
... poets of the Au- gustan age . His way of expressing and applying them , not his invention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . For this reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who ...
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... poet . The reader may observe the following lines in the same view . A needless Alexandrine ends the song , " That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along . " And afterwards , " ' Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ...
... poet . The reader may observe the following lines in the same view . A needless Alexandrine ends the song , " That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along . " And afterwards , " ' Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ...
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... POET . MY father , whom I mentioned in my first specu- lation , and whom I must always name with honour and gratitude , has very frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged , partly by his ...
... POET . MY father , whom I mentioned in my first specu- lation , and whom I must always name with honour and gratitude , has very frequently talked to me upon the subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged , partly by his ...
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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.