 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 624 pages
...excellencies, rather than fancy and invention ; . not that the. author of the Rape of the Lock and Eloifa car be thought to want imagination, but becaufe his imagination...not, and becaufe he gave not fo many proofs of this U. lent as of the other. This turn of mind led him to admire French models ; he ftudied Boileau aitenfivcly... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1782 - 588 pages
...excellencies, rather clian /«/>o' and invention ; not that the author of the Rape of tht L- . :, and EloiJ'a, can be thought to want imagination, but becaufe his...it not, and becaufe he gave not fo many proofs of .••-.; talent as of the other. This turn of mind led him to admire French models; he ftudied Boiltau... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...excellencies, rather ihzn fancy and invention •> not that the author of the Rape of the Lock, and Eloifa, can be thought to want imagination, but becaufe his imagination was not his predominant talent, talent, becaufe he indulged it not, and becaufe he gave not fo many proofs of this talent as of the... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...excellencies, rather than fancy and invention ; not that the author of the Refc tf tit L/ut and Eloifa can be thought to want imagination, but becaufe his imagination was not hit predominant talent ; bcciule he indulged it not, and becaufe he gave r.ot fo many proof« of this... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...excellencies, rather than fancy and invention ; not that the author of the Rapt of tie Luí and Ehifa can be thought to want imagination, but becaufe his imagination was not hil predominant talent ; becaufe he indulged it not, and becaufe he gave not fo many proofs of thii... | |
 | History - 1800 - 620 pages
...excellencies, rather than fancy and invention ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock and Eloifa car« be thought to want imagination, but becaufe his imagination was not his predominant talent, becanfe he in-i dulged it not, and becaufe he gave not fo many proofs of this talent as of the other.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...imagination was not his predominant talent, because he indulged it not, and because he gave not so 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...imagination was not his predominant talent, because he indulged it not, and because he gave not so many proofs of this talent as of the other. This turn of mind led him to admire French mo, dels ; he studied Boileau attentively ; formed himself upon him, as Milton formed himself upon... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...imagination was not his predominant talent, because he indulged it not, and because he gave not so 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...imagination was not his predominant talent, because he indulged it not, and because he gave not so many proofs of this talent as of the other. This turn of mind led him to admire Freneh models; he studied Boileau attentively; formed himself upon him, as Milton formed himself upon... | |
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... 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. 
