Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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... rifes , armies rife in him ! he pours forth five or fix Epic Poems with greater facility , than five or fix pages can be produced by an elaborate and servile copier after Nature or the Ancients . It is affirmed by Quintilian , that the ...
... rifes , armies rife in him ! he pours forth five or fix Epic Poems with greater facility , than five or fix pages can be produced by an elaborate and servile copier after Nature or the Ancients . It is affirmed by Quintilian , that the ...
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... rifes into day . What a peculiarity is here of invention ? The Author's pencil , like the wand of Circe , turns all into monsters at a stroke . A great Genius takes things in the lump , without ftopping at minute confiderations : In ...
... rifes into day . What a peculiarity is here of invention ? The Author's pencil , like the wand of Circe , turns all into monsters at a stroke . A great Genius takes things in the lump , without ftopping at minute confiderations : In ...
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... rifes ex- tremely . Before the next chapter was pafted the Effigies of Dr. Sacheverel , and I found the oppofite page all on a foam with Politicks . It We are now ( fays he ) arrived at that celebrat- ed in which the Church of England ...
... rifes ex- tremely . Before the next chapter was pafted the Effigies of Dr. Sacheverel , and I found the oppofite page all on a foam with Politicks . It We are now ( fays he ) arrived at that celebrat- ed in which the Church of England ...
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... rifes into very astonishing sentiments where he is not fired by the Iliad . If we obferve his defcriptions , images , and fi- miles , we shall find the invention ftill predomi- nant . To what else can we afcribe that vaft com ...
... rifes into very astonishing sentiments where he is not fired by the Iliad . If we obferve his defcriptions , images , and fi- miles , we shall find the invention ftill predomi- nant . To what else can we afcribe that vaft com ...
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... rifes with it , and forms itself about it : And in the fame degree that a thought is warmer , an expreffion will be brighter ; as that is more strong , this will become more perfpicuous : Like glass in the furnace , which grows to a ...
... rifes with it , and forms itself about it : And in the fame degree that a thought is warmer , an expreffion will be brighter ; as that is more strong , this will become more perfpicuous : Like glass in the furnace , which grows to a ...
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Page 386 - The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank. Accordingly we find that not our author's only but almost all the old comedies have their scene among tradesmen and mechanics; and even their historical plays strictly follow the common old stories or vulgar traditions of that kind of people.
Page 286 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Page 322 - However it be, I do not know, I say, why this prejudice, well improved and carried as far as it would go, might not be made to conduce to the preservation of many innocent creatures, which are now exposed to all the wantonness of an ignorant barbarity.
Page 92 - Who knew no Wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heav'n's Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine.
Page 352 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Page 388 - Another cause (and no less strong than the former) may be deduced from our author's being a player, and forming himself first upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member.
Page 196 - But all that lies between thefe, as Corn, Flower, Fruits...
Page 396 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Page 378 - ... with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next...
Page 388 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.