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... critic's art a higher praise . Touch'd by no meaner hand , so pleas'd I see The wreath that Gifford wore , descend to thee . Come then , alike in converse grave or gay , Speed the swift hours , and share the social day ; Leave the huge ...
... critic's art a higher praise . Touch'd by no meaner hand , so pleas'd I see The wreath that Gifford wore , descend to thee . Come then , alike in converse grave or gay , Speed the swift hours , and share the social day ; Leave the huge ...
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... critic , and gibbet up the carcass of Zoilus , to the terror of the writings of posterity . More , and much more , upon this and a thousand other subjects will be the matter of my next letter , wherein I must open all the friend to you ...
... critic , and gibbet up the carcass of Zoilus , to the terror of the writings of posterity . More , and much more , upon this and a thousand other subjects will be the matter of my next letter , wherein I must open all the friend to you ...
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... am not sure whether the critics have decided as to the time in which this burlesque poem was written ; or how they have accounted for its having borrowed the venerable name of the father of poetry ; LIFE OF PARNELL . 55.
... am not sure whether the critics have decided as to the time in which this burlesque poem was written ; or how they have accounted for its having borrowed the venerable name of the father of poetry ; LIFE OF PARNELL . 55.
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... critic of genius and taste ) is not extensive , but its tone is peculiarly delightful ; not from mere correctness of expression , to which some critics have stinted its praises , but from the graceful and reserved sensi- bility that ...
... critic of genius and taste ) is not extensive , but its tone is peculiarly delightful ; not from mere correctness of expression , to which some critics have stinted its praises , but from the graceful and reserved sensi- bility that ...
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... critic is to correct and amend them . There being a new edition coming out of Homer , I would willingly render it a little less defective , and the bookseller will not allow me time to do so myself . Pope's Letter to Warburton , xx ...
... critic is to correct and amend them . There being a new edition coming out of Homer , I would willingly render it a little less defective , and the bookseller will not allow me time to do so myself . Pope's Letter to Warburton , xx ...
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ancient appear Arbuthnot Aristophanes Armoric King Bacchus beauty beneath breath bright Callimachus charms Comus Cras amet cried critic death delight envy eyes fair fame fancy fate flies flowers frogs genius gentle give glory gods Goldsmith grace grave green grove hand head heart Hesiod Homer honour Iliad Ipsa Jove king learning Let those love light Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer Lycophron manner mice mind mouse Muse nature never lov'd numquam amavit Nymphs o'er Ovid Parnell Parnell's pass'd plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise quique amavit racter rise rising song round sacred says Scriblerus Club seem'd shade shine silent sing Sir John Parnell smile soft song soul speak sweet Swift thee thine thing Thomas Parnell thou thought tion translation trembling truth Twas vale verses write young youth Zoilus
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Page 73 - Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 108 - Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below.
Page 100 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave .his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 93 - ... breathe The lake is smooth and clear beneath, Where once again the spangled show Descends to meet our eyes below. The grounds which on the right aspire, In dimness from the view retire : The left presents a place of graves, Whose wall the silent water laves. That steeple guides thy doubtful sight Among the livid gleams of night. There pass, with melancholy state. By all the solemn heaps of fate, And think, as softly-sad you tread Above the venerable dead, ' Time was, like thee they life possest,...
Page 61 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 98 - Go rule thy will, Bid thy wild passions all be still, Know God — and bring thy heart to know The joys which from religion flow : Then every Grace shall prove its guest, And I'll be there to crown the rest.
Page 32 - Thus some are born, my son,' she cries, ' With base impediments to rise, And some are born with none. ' But virtue can itself advance To what the favourite fools of chance By fortune seem'd design'd ; Virtue can gain the odds of fate, And from itself shake off the weight Upon th
Page 105 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part; From him you come, from him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Page 72 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Page 72 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace. And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.