Letters, by Several Eminent Persons Deceased: Including the Correspondence of John Hughes, Esq. ... and Several of His Friends, Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1773 |
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... poets long deceased there feem revived and present to our view : we are admitted into the clofets and confidence of the great and good , we imagine ourselves their friends and correfpondents . Cicero pleading in the forum , and Cicero ...
... poets long deceased there feem revived and present to our view : we are admitted into the clofets and confidence of the great and good , we imagine ourselves their friends and correfpondents . Cicero pleading in the forum , and Cicero ...
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... poet at his first appearance ; no , not even to Mr. Congreve himself . So nobly ele- " vated are his thoughts , his numbers so harmonious , and his turns fo fine and delicate , that we cry out " with Tully , on a like occafion , Noftræ ...
... poet at his first appearance ; no , not even to Mr. Congreve himself . So nobly ele- " vated are his thoughts , his numbers so harmonious , and his turns fo fine and delicate , that we cry out " with Tully , on a like occafion , Noftræ ...
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... poet , but were both excelled by his character as a man and a Chriftian .. His " religion was fincere without feverity , his " morals ftrict but not auftere , his con- " verfation equally inftructive and pleasant . " To fay all of him ...
... poet , but were both excelled by his character as a man and a Chriftian .. His " religion was fincere without feverity , his " morals ftrict but not auftere , his con- " verfation equally inftructive and pleasant . " To fay all of him ...
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... poet and hiftorian of his time , poet - laureat to queen Elizabeth , and afterwards one of the grooms of the privy - cham- ber to the queen - confort of James I. His hiftory was first published in 1613 . published published without a ...
... poet and hiftorian of his time , poet - laureat to queen Elizabeth , and afterwards one of the grooms of the privy - cham- ber to the queen - confort of James I. His hiftory was first published in 1613 . published published without a ...
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... poets , and though I have reafon enough to expect the fame fuccefs , that Horace pro- phefies of the imitators of Pindar , yet I have fometimes been inclined to fancy the defign , and fome of the verfes , particularly the fix laft , not ...
... poets , and though I have reafon enough to expect the fame fuccefs , that Horace pro- phefies of the imitators of Pindar , yet I have fometimes been inclined to fancy the defign , and fome of the verfes , particularly the fix laft , not ...
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Página 68 - Tempest the ocean : there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Página 210 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Página 85 - I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee : but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Página 170 - So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a...
Página 85 - And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
Página 83 - I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul...
Página 71 - Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Página 17 - Sir, (quoth the lawyer,) not to flatter ye, You have as good and fair a battery As heart can wish, and need not shame The proudest man alive to claim...
Página 107 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman...
Página 73 - Incline thofe heads, that never ach'd or thought. This muft provoke his mirth or his difdain, Cure his complaint, — or make him fick again. I too, like them, the poet's path purfue, And keep great Flaccus ever in my view ; But in a diftant...