A New Review: With Literary Curiosities and Literary Intelligence, Volume 1author, 1782 |
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Page 77
... lived in polished fociety , Young feems : to have all the faults of Juvenal , without one of his merits . I know but one paffage where there is any thing like either flow of verfe , or fullness of defcription , and that is very far from ...
... lived in polished fociety , Young feems : to have all the faults of Juvenal , without one of his merits . I know but one paffage where there is any thing like either flow of verfe , or fullness of defcription , and that is very far from ...
Page 81
... lived much with him at the time , that he did fee it , but did not find much in it to his purpose . Difdain whatever Cornbury difdains . Dr. Warton takes occafion to quote the letter this young nobleman wrote to Mr. Mallet , to prevent ...
... lived much with him at the time , that he did fee it , but did not find much in it to his purpose . Difdain whatever Cornbury difdains . Dr. Warton takes occafion to quote the letter this young nobleman wrote to Mr. Mallet , to prevent ...
Page 120
... lived in peace , and died , after a reign of feventeen years , in 879 , leaving behind him a fon of the name of Igor under the care of Oleg his relation . Oleg had no fooner poffeffion of the government in- trufted to him , than ...
... lived in peace , and died , after a reign of feventeen years , in 879 , leaving behind him a fon of the name of Igor under the care of Oleg his relation . Oleg had no fooner poffeffion of the government in- trufted to him , than ...
Page 124
... lived " in a barbarous age : had he lived in the 17th century , " he probably , and not Peter , would have civilized his country ; but no man foars very high above his cotem- " poràries . In the 11th , Voltaire would have been only ...
... lived " in a barbarous age : had he lived in the 17th century , " he probably , and not Peter , would have civilized his country ; but no man foars very high above his cotem- " poràries . In the 11th , Voltaire would have been only ...
Page 128
... lived . As to Maffon's opinion , that the poet was really guilty , but that he wished to per- fuade the emperor that he was only a witness , it does not feem to correfpond either with the emperor's lenity , or the fuppofition that he ...
... lived . As to Maffon's opinion , that the poet was really guilty , but that he wished to per- fuade the emperor that he was only a witness , it does not feem to correfpond either with the emperor's lenity , or the fuppofition that he ...
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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.