...trifling in comparison of the English ; more proper for sonnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroick poetry. The turn on thoughts and words is their chief talent ; but the epick poem is too stately to receive those little ornaments. The painters draw their nymphs in thin...

...Miffllanies. 7. Fluttering ; loofe : as if to catch the air; full of levity. — The painters draw th;ir nymphs in thin and airy habits ; but the weight of gold and of embroideries is referred for queens and goddf fles. Dryd By this name of ladies he means all young perfons, flender,...

...standard of their language ; and a masculine vigour is that of ours. L,ike their tongue, is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in comparison of the English ; more proper tor sonnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroic poetry. The turn on thoughts and words is their chief...

...standard of their language ; »nd a masculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in comparison of...nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of fc'old and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses. Virgil is never frequent in those...

...standard of their language ; and a masculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in comparison of...words is their chief talent ; but the epic poem is too statelv to receive those little ornaments. The painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits,...

...masculioe vigour is that of GllIS. Like thru- tongue, is the genins of their poets, light and trilling in comparison of the English; more proper for sonnets,...ornaments. The painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy hahits: hnt the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses. Virgil is...

...standard of their language; and a masculine vigour is that of ours. Like their tongue is the genius of their poets, light and trifling in comparison of...ornaments. The painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy hahits: but the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses. Virgil is...

...scarcity of money ; which occasioned many airy propositions, for the remedy of it. Tempte'i MureU. The painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits...the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved fur queens and goddesses. Itryden. There are fishes that have wings, that are no strangers to the airy...

...His artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton. Their tongue is light and trifling in comparison of the English ;...more proper for sonnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroick poetry. Drifdtn. A madrigal is a little amorous piece, which contains a certain number of unequal...

...their tongue, is the genius of their poets, light and trifling ,n comparison of the English ; mure proper for sonnets, madrigals, and elegies, than heroic...The turn on thoughts and words is their chief talent ; hut the epic poem is too stately to receive those little ornaments. The painters draw their nymphs...