Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2J. Murray, 1807 - English literature |
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... translated from the French version of his Epic ! One Green published a specimen of a new version of the " Paradise Lost " into blank verse ! For this purpose he has utterly ruined the harmony of Milton's cadences , by whathe conceived ...
... translated from the French version of his Epic ! One Green published a specimen of a new version of the " Paradise Lost " into blank verse ! For this purpose he has utterly ruined the harmony of Milton's cadences , by whathe conceived ...
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... translated Cibber's play of " Love's Last Shift , " entitled it thus , " La Derniere Chemise de l'Amour . " A similar blunder is that of the French writer of Congreve's life , who has taken his Mourning , for a Morning Bride , and ...
... translated Cibber's play of " Love's Last Shift , " entitled it thus , " La Derniere Chemise de l'Amour . " A similar blunder is that of the French writer of Congreve's life , who has taken his Mourning , for a Morning Bride , and ...
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... Twiss who has so painfully translated his work in his " Miscellanies " might have left his Italian wife at Florence , and not have introduced her to the chaster beauties of Britain . Dr. Cocchi shews how " a wife falls 64 A LITERARY WIFE .
... Twiss who has so painfully translated his work in his " Miscellanies " might have left his Italian wife at Florence , and not have introduced her to the chaster beauties of Britain . Dr. Cocchi shews how " a wife falls 64 A LITERARY WIFE .
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... translated by Rowe ; and Du Fresnoy at length gratifies the connoisseur with his poem on Painting , by the embellishments which his verses have received from the poetic diction of Mason , and the com- mentary of Reynolds . This list ...
... translated by Rowe ; and Du Fresnoy at length gratifies the connoisseur with his poem on Painting , by the embellishments which his verses have received from the poetic diction of Mason , and the com- mentary of Reynolds . This list ...
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... translated from a pamflete in Frensche . " LITTLE BOOKS . THE same ingenious writer has given his opinion of the advantages of Little Books with much wit and humour . " The smallness of the size of a book was always its own commendation ...
... translated from a pamflete in Frensche . " LITTLE BOOKS . THE same ingenious writer has given his opinion of the advantages of Little Books with much wit and humour . " The smallness of the size of a book was always its own commendation ...
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Page 483 - Two such I saw what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinkt hedger at his supper sat...
Page 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Page 478 - ... angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Page 489 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, 'This chief transcends his father's fame.' While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
Page 139 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 460 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Page 461 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 64 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Page 469 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 462 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...