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... o'er thy fad distress , And Venus fhall the texture blefs , & c . Come we now to his tranflation of the ILIAD , cele . brated by numerous pens , yet shall it fuffice to mention the indefatigable Sir RICHARD BLACKMORE , Kt . Who ( though ...
... o'er thy fad distress , And Venus fhall the texture blefs , & c . Come we now to his tranflation of the ILIAD , cele . brated by numerous pens , yet shall it fuffice to mention the indefatigable Sir RICHARD BLACKMORE , Kt . Who ( though ...
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... o'er the land and deep . REMARKS . who brings In " The Smithfield Mufes to the ear of Kings . " And it is notorious who was the perfon on whom this Prince conferred the honour of the Laurel . It appears as plainly from the Apoftrophe to ...
... o'er the land and deep . REMARKS . who brings In " The Smithfield Mufes to the ear of Kings . " And it is notorious who was the perfon on whom this Prince conferred the honour of the Laurel . It appears as plainly from the Apoftrophe to ...
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... o'er all possess'd her ancient right , Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night : Fate in their dotage this fair Idiot gave , Grofs as her fire , and as her mother grave , Laborious , heavy , bufy , bold , and blind , She rul'd , in native ...
... o'er all possess'd her ancient right , Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night : Fate in their dotage this fair Idiot gave , Grofs as her fire , and as her mother grave , Laborious , heavy , bufy , bold , and blind , She rul'd , in native ...
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... o'er the gates , by his fam'd father's hand , Great Cibber's brazen , brainless brothers stand ; One Cell there is , conceal'd from vulgar eye , The Cave of Poverty and Poetry . VARIATION . Keen , Ver . 29-39 . Close to those walls ...
... o'er the gates , by his fam'd father's hand , Great Cibber's brazen , brainless brothers stand ; One Cell there is , conceal'd from vulgar eye , The Cave of Poverty and Poetry . VARIATION . Keen , Ver . 29-39 . Close to those walls ...
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... o'er in robes of varying hues , With felf - applause her wild creation views ; Sees momentary monsters rife and fall , And with her own fools - colours gilds them all . ' Twas on the day , when * * rich and grave , 85 Like Cimon triumph ...
... o'er in robes of varying hues , With felf - applause her wild creation views ; Sees momentary monsters rife and fall , And with her own fools - colours gilds them all . ' Twas on the day , when * * rich and grave , 85 Like Cimon triumph ...
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Page 212 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
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Page 84 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
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Page 24 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Page 223 - As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And keep them in the pale of words till death.
Page 232 - Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce ; Or, set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Page 203 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Page 24 - ... mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which...