A New Review: With Literary Curiosities and Literary Intelligence, Volume 1author, 1782 |
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... fhould have tempted the Doctor to bestow more ornaments on his work than the title of it feems to promife . Accordingly , tho ' it is call- ed only a Review of the Life and Writings of Pope , it is in fact little less than a review of ...
... fhould have tempted the Doctor to bestow more ornaments on his work than the title of it feems to promife . Accordingly , tho ' it is call- ed only a Review of the Life and Writings of Pope , it is in fact little less than a review of ...
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... fhould not be able to difcover perfection and order in every inftance , becaufe , in an infinity of things mutu- ally relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . In illuftrating his fubject , Pope has ' been ...
... fhould not be able to difcover perfection and order in every inftance , becaufe , in an infinity of things mutu- ally relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can fee nothing fully . In illuftrating his fubject , Pope has ' been ...
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... fhould have been the firft to have given us good accounts of the Apollo , the Niobe , the Laocoon , and other master- pieces of antiquity , had confined themfelves to trifling figures , and the explanations were as trifling as the 6 ...
... fhould have been the firft to have given us good accounts of the Apollo , the Niobe , the Laocoon , and other master- pieces of antiquity , had confined themfelves to trifling figures , and the explanations were as trifling as the 6 ...
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... fhould be approved , the prefent abridger may attempt fomething of the kind ; in the mean time he means to continue his abridgment in this publication . Chapter the first . Of the Rife of the Arts , and the Caufes of the Differences ...
... fhould be approved , the prefent abridger may attempt fomething of the kind ; in the mean time he means to continue his abridgment in this publication . Chapter the first . Of the Rife of the Arts , and the Caufes of the Differences ...
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... fhould advance what I could not prove , were I to pronounce your lordship to be JUNIUS , but I am convinced you can command the pen of JUNIUS . " ART . VIII . Storia della Letteratura Italiana , or Hiflory of Italian Literature . By ...
... fhould advance what I could not prove , were I to pronounce your lordship to be JUNIUS , but I am convinced you can command the pen of JUNIUS . " ART . VIII . Storia della Letteratura Italiana , or Hiflory of Italian Literature . By ...
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Page 347 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page 346 - So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 348 - of every creature : for by him were all " things created that are in heaven, and " that are in earth, vifible and invifible, " whether they be thrones, or dominions, " or principalities, or powers ; all things " were created by him and for him...
Page 88 - Surely it is no narrow and niggardly encomium to say he is the great Poet of Reason, the first of ethical authors in verse. And this species of writing is, after all, the surest road to an extensive reputation. It lies more level to the general capacities of men than the higher flights of more genuine poetry.
Page 16 - All are but parts of one ftupendous whole, Whofe body Nature is, and God the foul : That, chang'd thro...
Page 348 - And whofoever was not found written in the book of life was caft into the lake of fire.
Page 347 - Father, who raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand, far above all principalities and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church...
Page 87 - ... many proofs of this talent as of the other. This turn of mind led him to admire French models; he studied Boileau attentively, formed himself upon him as Milton formed himself upon the Grecian and Italian sons of fancy.
Page 348 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and fuch as are in the fea, and all that are in them, heard I, faying, Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.