Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler ; and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eight Volume of the Spectator and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 2J. Seeley, 1810 |
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... Theocritus is a perfect copy of the style and stanza of the first two months of Spenser's Calendar , and the blank odes from Horace have as much melody as can usu- ally be exhibited in this department independent of rhyme . It is to the ...
... Theocritus is a perfect copy of the style and stanza of the first two months of Spenser's Calendar , and the blank odes from Horace have as much melody as can usu- ally be exhibited in this department independent of rhyme . It is to the ...
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... Theocritus ; while the second , for the same occasion , 1787 , chaunts the praises of the great Laureate Poets of England , Chaucer , Spenser , and Dryden . The idea is a happy one , and it is brought forward and embodied with the ...
... Theocritus ; while the second , for the same occasion , 1787 , chaunts the praises of the great Laureate Poets of England , Chaucer , Spenser , and Dryden . The idea is a happy one , and it is brought forward and embodied with the ...
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... Theocritus , under the title " De Poesi Bucolica Græcorum Dissertatio , " would be highly acceptable to the public . He contributed this year some notes to his friend Johnson's edition of Shakspeare ; and in 1758 and 1759 three essays ...
... Theocritus , under the title " De Poesi Bucolica Græcorum Dissertatio , " would be highly acceptable to the public . He contributed this year some notes to his friend Johnson's edition of Shakspeare ; and in 1758 and 1759 three essays ...
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... Theocritus . . Το He appeared before the world as a biographer in the year 1760 , by the contribution of the Life of ... Theocritus ; proxime sequeter , cui nunc omnes operas et vires intendo , Theocritus . On the seventh of December ...
... Theocritus . . Το He appeared before the world as a biographer in the year 1760 , by the contribution of the Life of ... Theocritus ; proxime sequeter , cui nunc omnes operas et vires intendo , Theocritus . On the seventh of December ...
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... Theocritus . To this unrivalled pastoral poet Mr. Warton was peculiarly attached ; and , as it was his wish , on accepting the office of Poetry- Professor , to present the University with an edi- tion of a Greek classic , he naturally ...
... Theocritus . To this unrivalled pastoral poet Mr. Warton was peculiarly attached ; and , as it was his wish , on accepting the office of Poetry- Professor , to present the University with an edi- tion of a Greek classic , he naturally ...
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Página 241 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 237 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Página 279 - I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Página 228 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Página 92 - Or, if to touch such chord be thine, Restore the ancient tragic line, And emulate the notes that rung From the wild harp which silent hung By silver Avon's holy shore, Till twice an hundred years roll'd o'er ; When she, the bold Enchantress...
Página 116 - O lover of the desert, hail ! Say, in what deep and pathless vale, Or on what hoary mountain's side...
Página 468 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Página 130 - Milton, and just above Dryden. Yet, to bring our minds steadily to make this decision, we must forget, for a moment, the divine Music Ode of Dryden; and may perhaps then be compelled to confess that though Dryden be the greater genius, yet Pope is the better artist.
Página 61 - The character of Lothario seems to have been expanded by Richardson into Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the...
Página 155 - I had the assurance to dispute with him on the subject of human malignity, and wondered to hear a man, who, by his actions, shows so much benevolence, maintain that the human heart is naturally malevolent, and that all the benevolence we see in the few who are good is acquired by reason and religion.