The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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Stran 32
... easily give a reafon . It is poffible , fays Hooker , that by long circumduction , from any one truth all truth may be in- ferred . Of all homogeneous truths at leaft , of all truths refpecting the fame general end , in whatever series ...
... easily give a reafon . It is poffible , fays Hooker , that by long circumduction , from any one truth all truth may be in- ferred . Of all homogeneous truths at leaft , of all truths refpecting the fame general end , in whatever series ...
Stran 143
... is a compli- ment this age deferves . The man who threatens the world is always ridicu- lous ; for the world can easily go on without him , and in a fhort time will ceafe ceafe to mifs him . I have heard of an POPE . 143.
... is a compli- ment this age deferves . The man who threatens the world is always ridicu- lous ; for the world can easily go on without him , and in a fhort time will ceafe ceafe to mifs him . I have heard of an POPE . 143.
Stran 145
Samuel Johnson. old ; an age at which the mind begins lefs easily to admit new confidence , and the will , to grow lefs flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt ..... In the next year he loft his ...
Samuel Johnson. old ; an age at which the mind begins lefs easily to admit new confidence , and the will , to grow lefs flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt ..... In the next year he loft his ...
Stran 164
... easily discover expreffions not very favourable to morals , or to li- berty . About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning . He was a man of vigo- rous faculties , a mind fervid and vehe- ment ...
... easily discover expreffions not very favourable to morals , or to li- berty . About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning . He was a man of vigo- rous faculties , a mind fervid and vehe- ment ...
Stran 200
... easily discoverable . Perhaps he imagined that in ridiculing the Laureat , he fati- rifed thofe by whom the laurel had been given , and gratified that ambitious pe- tulance with which he affected to infult the great . The feverity of ...
... easily discoverable . Perhaps he imagined that in ridiculing the Laureat , he fati- rifed thofe by whom the laurel had been given , and gratified that ambitious pe- tulance with which he affected to infult the great . The feverity of ...
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Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 347 - As Gay was the favourite of our author, this epitaph was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more successfully executed than the rest, for it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labour.
Stran 212 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
Stran 256 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Stran 246 - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
Stran 76 - O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
Stran 315 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Stran 255 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Stran 252 - ... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Stran 85 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Stran 252 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...