The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Volume 2 |
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... Publick will have Lan agreeable Entertainment , and the Satif- faction of obferving the Progrefs and Im- provement of our English Poetry . C As a faithful Register of Facts , I bave every where adventur'd to tell Truth , in the most ...
... Publick will have Lan agreeable Entertainment , and the Satif- faction of obferving the Progrefs and Im- provement of our English Poetry . C As a faithful Register of Facts , I bave every where adventur'd to tell Truth , in the most ...
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... - thod I have purfued , in reducing the whole to fo fmall an Extent , it will be of use to thofe very Perfons , and , in general , accep table to the Publick . 932 AT ΑΝ XVIt To no moral eds . mod 293520 11W77 Vi xvi PREFACE .
... - thod I have purfued , in reducing the whole to fo fmall an Extent , it will be of use to thofe very Perfons , and , in general , accep table to the Publick . 932 AT ΑΝ XVIt To no moral eds . mod 293520 11W77 Vi xvi PREFACE .
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... publick . They are as follow , I. SALMACIS and HERMAPHRODITUS : Or , the Hermaphrodite . This is taken from Ovid's Me tamorphofes , our Author thus Defcribes the Nymph , So fair fhe was , of fuch a pleafing , Grace , So ftrait a Body ...
... publick . They are as follow , I. SALMACIS and HERMAPHRODITUS : Or , the Hermaphrodite . This is taken from Ovid's Me tamorphofes , our Author thus Defcribes the Nymph , So fair fhe was , of fuch a pleafing , Grace , So ftrait a Body ...
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... Publick an invalua- ble Work , intitled , PSYCHE or Loves Mystery , in Twenty Four Cantos : Difplaying the Intercourfe betwixt Chrift and the Soul . Folio . The Occafion and Design of this celebrated Piece , the Author thus recites in ...
... Publick an invalua- ble Work , intitled , PSYCHE or Loves Mystery , in Twenty Four Cantos : Difplaying the Intercourfe betwixt Chrift and the Soul . Folio . The Occafion and Design of this celebrated Piece , the Author thus recites in ...
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... Publick , it is thought proper in this Place to declare , that all the Manufcripts Mr. Butler left behind him are now in the Cuftody of Mr. Longville , ( among which , the moft Confiderable , is one intitled , The Hiftory of Learning ...
... Publick , it is thought proper in this Place to declare , that all the Manufcripts Mr. Butler left behind him are now in the Cuftody of Mr. Longville , ( among which , the moft Confiderable , is one intitled , The Hiftory of Learning ...
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Page 198 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 104 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 255 - To his friends' pity, and pursuers' scorn, With shame remembers while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, The scenes of his past triumphs and his loves.
Page 147 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Page 196 - Sidney rais'd his Gratuity to Two Hundred Pounds, and commanded the Steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further, he might be tempted to give away his whole Estate.
Page 144 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Page 257 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants.
Page 105 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Page 174 - His behaviour was easy and courteous to all ; but distinguished and adapted to each man in particular, according to his station and quality. His civility was free from the formality of rule, and flowed immediately from his good sense.
Page 276 - He kept up his good" humour to the laft ; and took leave of " his wife and friends, immediately before " his laft agony, with the fame tranquillity " of mind, and the fame indifference for " life, as though he had been upon taking " but a fhort journey. He was twice mar" ried, firft to a daughter of Mr.