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... elegant . The . caft of diction feems to be copied from Thomfon , whofe Seasons were then in their full bloffom of reputation . He has Thomfon's beauties and his faults . His poem on Verbal Criticism ( 1733 ) was written to pay court to ...
... elegant . The . caft of diction feems to be copied from Thomfon , whofe Seasons were then in their full bloffom of reputation . He has Thomfon's beauties and his faults . His poem on Verbal Criticism ( 1733 ) was written to pay court to ...
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... elegant and eafy . The rest of his character may , without injury to his memory , fink into filence . As a writer , he cannot be placed in any high clafs . There is no fpecies of compofition in which he was eminent . F " His Dramas had ...
... elegant and eafy . The rest of his character may , without injury to his memory , fink into filence . As a writer , he cannot be placed in any high clafs . There is no fpecies of compofition in which he was eminent . F " His Dramas had ...
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... elegant lite- rature . Here it appears that he found delight and advantage ; for he continued his name there ten years , though he took no degree . After the first four years he put on the Civilian's gown , but with- out fhewing any ...
... elegant lite- rature . Here it appears that he found delight and advantage ; for he continued his name there ten years , though he took no degree . After the first four years he put on the Civilian's gown , but with- out fhewing any ...
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... , is very curious and elegant ; for as his comprehenfion was ample , his curiofity extended to all the works of art , all the appearances of nature , and all all the monuments of past events . He naturally contracted GRAY . II.
... , is very curious and elegant ; for as his comprehenfion was ample , his curiofity extended to all the works of art , all the appearances of nature , and all all the monuments of past events . He naturally contracted GRAY . II.
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... elegant and pro- " found parts of fcience , and that not 66 fuperficially but thoroughly . He " knew every branch of hiftery , both " natural and civil ; had read all the 66 original historians of England , France , and Italy ; and was ...
... elegant and pro- " found parts of fcience , and that not 66 fuperficially but thoroughly . He " knew every branch of hiftery , both " natural and civil ; had read all the 66 original historians of England , France , and Italy ; and was ...
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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.