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... seems to have been raised from the two answers of Lord Burghley and Sir Philip Sidney in Spenfer's Life . When Young was writing a tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human skull , with a candle in it , as a proper lamp ...
... seems to have been raised from the two answers of Lord Burghley and Sir Philip Sidney in Spenfer's Life . When Young was writing a tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human skull , with a candle in it , as a proper lamp ...
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... seems that his extemporaneous reproof ( if it must be extemporaneous ) , for what few will now affirm Voltaire to have deferved any re- proof , was fomething longer than a dif- tich , and fomething more gentle than this diftich . No ...
... seems that his extemporaneous reproof ( if it must be extemporaneous ) , for what few will now affirm Voltaire to have deferved any re- proof , was fomething longer than a dif- tich , and fomething more gentle than this diftich . No ...
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... seems to my ear the echo of Thomfon . His Life of Bacon is known as it is appended to Bacon's volumes , but is no longer mentioned . His works are fuch as a writer , bustling in the world , fhewing himself in publick , and emerging oc ...
... seems to my ear the echo of Thomfon . His Life of Bacon is known as it is appended to Bacon's volumes , but is no longer mentioned . His works are fuch as a writer , bustling in the world , fhewing himself in publick , and emerging oc ...
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... His ftanza seems to have been chofen in imitation of Rowe's Despairing Shepherd . In the first part are two paffages , to which if any mind denies its fympathy , it . it has no acquaintance with love or na- ture SHENSTONE . 15.
... His ftanza seems to have been chofen in imitation of Rowe's Despairing Shepherd . In the first part are two paffages , to which if any mind denies its fympathy , it . it has no acquaintance with love or na- ture SHENSTONE . 15.
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... seem to defert him ; he has no longer his luxuriance of expreffion , nor variety of images . His thoughts are cold , and his words inelegant . Yet fuch was his love of lyricks , that , having written with great vigour and poignancy his ...
... seem to defert him ; he has no longer his luxuriance of expreffion , nor variety of images . His thoughts are cold , and his words inelegant . Yet fuch was his love of lyricks , that , having written with great vigour and poignancy his ...
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Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1781 |
prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the english poets. samuel johnson Visualização integral - 1781 |
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Página 18 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Página 17 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 6 - Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Página 60 - O how divine ! to tread the milky way, To the bright palace of the lord of day ; His court admire, or for his favour sue, Or leagues of friendship with his saints renew...
Página 9 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Página 23 - The Prospect of Eton College suggests nothing to Gray, which every beholder does not equally think and feel.
Página 43 - Short was his joy. He little knew The power of Magic was no fable ; Out of the window, whisk, they flew, But left a spell upon the table.
Página 13 - Westmoreland and Cumberland. He that reads his epistolary narration wishes, that to travel, and to tell his travels, had been more of his employment ; but it is by studying at home that we must obtain the ability of travelling with intelligence and improvement.
Página 17 - twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Página 6 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.