Letters Concerning TasteR. and J. Dodsley, 1755 - 143 páginas |
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... Country . A Conjecture that the Temple of the Sun was built by LONGINUS , from a fimi- larity of Tafte in other Arts . A Cri- ticifm upon the Ufe of the CORIN- THIAN Order only in that City . A Reafon why that Order was fo much admir'd ...
... Country . A Conjecture that the Temple of the Sun was built by LONGINUS , from a fimi- larity of Tafte in other Arts . A Cri- ticifm upon the Ufe of the CORIN- THIAN Order only in that City . A Reafon why that Order was fo much admir'd ...
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... Country Seat , and , at proper Distances , small Hamlets , together with Spires and Towers , as MILTON describes ' em ,. " bofom'd high in tufted Trees . " Does not an additional Rapture flow in from this Adjunct , of which Reason will ...
... Country Seat , and , at proper Distances , small Hamlets , together with Spires and Towers , as MILTON describes ' em ,. " bofom'd high in tufted Trees . " Does not an additional Rapture flow in from this Adjunct , of which Reason will ...
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... Country , or Wisdom contemplating in Retirement for the Welfare of Man- kind , are not truly amiable Images , be- longing to the Divine Family of Truth . I think I have now reconcil'd our two fa- vorite Opinions , by proving that these ...
... Country , or Wisdom contemplating in Retirement for the Welfare of Man- kind , are not truly amiable Images , be- longing to the Divine Family of Truth . I think I have now reconcil'd our two fa- vorite Opinions , by proving that these ...
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... Countries , ( for Defcriptions are nothing but Tranfcripts from Nature , and Nature is always the fame ) I fhould have been ready to have pronounced Eve's Defcrip- tion of viewing herself in the Fountain , in Paradife Loft , to be ...
... Countries , ( for Defcriptions are nothing but Tranfcripts from Nature , and Nature is always the fame ) I fhould have been ready to have pronounced Eve's Defcrip- tion of viewing herself in the Fountain , in Paradife Loft , to be ...
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... Country- men , to obferve , that there are ftill feve- ṛal among us , who , in fpite of publick Depravity , retain a virtuous Love for the Arts , and make Use the end of their En- deavours . A Friend of mine who is an Admirer of the ...
... Country- men , to obferve , that there are ftill feve- ṛal among us , who , in fpite of publick Depravity , retain a virtuous Love for the Arts , and make Use the end of their En- deavours . A Friend of mine who is an Admirer of the ...
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Æsop againſt AGATHOCLES almoſt ancient anſwer Applauſe arife ARISTUS Artiſt Author betwixt Cauſe cern Charms Compofitions Converfation CORINTHIAN Order Criticiſm CROESUS dare fay dear defcend defcribed defire Deſcription DORIC Order elegant enchanting ESOPUS eſpecially EUMELUS EUPHEMIUS Expreffion faid fame Fancy feems fhall fhould fince firft firſt fome foon Friend ftill fuch fuperior fure fweet Genius Goodneſs Grace greateſt Happineſs happy Heart herſelf Hiftory himſelf human Iliad Imagination Imitation Inftances ingenious itſelf JOVIANUS PONTANUS laft Landſcape laſt lefs LEONORA LETTER LETTER LINCO Love Mafters manner moft Moral moſt moſt beautiful muſt myſelf Nature Nymph Obfervation Occafion OVID Paffages Paffions pafs Peneus Pleaſure Poet poetical Poetry prefent PSYCHE Purpoſe Reafon reft Repreſentation Roscius ſay Senſe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Soul Species ſpent Spirits of Senfe ſpoke STROZZA Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe thro tion tivated Tranflation Truth uſe whilft whofe whoſe Wiſhes
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Página 114 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 97 - AWAY ; let nought to love displeasing, My Winifreda, move your care ; Let nought delay the heavenly blessing, Nor squeamish pride, nor gloomy fear. What though no grants of royal donors With pompous titles grace our blood ; We'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble, we'll be good.
Página 50 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Página 98 - How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Página 76 - My virgin flower uncropt, pure, chaste, and fair, No goblin, wood-god, fairy, elf, or fiend, Satyr, or other power that haunts the groves, Shall hurt my body, or by vain illusion Draw me to wander after idle fires, Or voices calling me in dead of night To make me follow, and so tole me on Through mire and standing pools, to find my ruin.
Página 41 - On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me : I started...
Página 29 - For Taste does not wholly depend upon the natural Strength and acquired Improvement of the Intellectual Powers; nor wholly upon a fine Construction of the Organs of the Body; nor wholly upon the intermediate Powers of the Imagination; but upon an Union of them all happily blended, without too great a Prevalency in either.
Página 38 - It show'd the bottom in a fairer light, Nor kept a sand conceal'd from human sight. The stream produc'd nor slimy ooze, nor weeds, Nor miry rushes, nor the spiky reeds ; But dealt enriching moisture all around, The fruitful banks with cheerful verdure crown'd, And kept the spring eternal on the ground.
Página 121 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?