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... thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be fo ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the Authors , not only on this account , but as many of them are the fame who for several years past have made free ...
... thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be fo ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the Authors , not only on this account , but as many of them are the fame who for several years past have made free ...
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... thought the least valuable part of his character , ) but the honeft , open , and bene- ficent man , that we most efteemed , and loved in him . Now , if what these people fay were believed , I must appear to all my friends either a fool ...
... thought the least valuable part of his character , ) but the honeft , open , and bene- ficent man , that we most efteemed , and loved in him . Now , if what these people fay were believed , I must appear to all my friends either a fool ...
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... thought of : Law can pro- nounce judgment only on open facts : Morality alone can pafs cenfure on intentions of Mischief ; fo that for fecret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a ...
... thought of : Law can pro- nounce judgment only on open facts : Morality alone can pafs cenfure on intentions of Mischief ; fo that for fecret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a ...
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... thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harsh and unmufical , his rhymes " trivial and common ; -inftead of majesty , we have " fomething that is very mean ; inftead of gravity , " fomething that is ...
... thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harsh and unmufical , his rhymes " trivial and common ; -inftead of majesty , we have " fomething that is very mean ; inftead of gravity , " fomething that is ...
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... thoughts over again , making them ftill more " trite . Most of their pieces are nothing but a pert , " infipid heap of common - place . Horace has , even in " his Art of Poetry , thrown out feveral things which 66 plainly fhew , he thought ...
... thoughts over again , making them ftill more " trite . Most of their pieces are nothing but a pert , " infipid heap of common - place . Horace has , even in " his Art of Poetry , thrown out feveral things which 66 plainly fhew , he thought ...
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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.
Page 269 - ... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the...
Page 223 - When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence...
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.
Page 203 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and...
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...