Letters Concerning Taste: To which are Added, Essays on Similar and Other Subjects ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 - 220 sider |
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... Some Subjects peculiar to one , and fome in common to both . The Superiority of v the former to the latter . Night - Pieces of MILTON , HOMER , and SHAKE- SPEAR . The inimitable Tafle and Excellence of the last in Defcription ...
... Some Subjects peculiar to one , and fome in common to both . The Superiority of v the former to the latter . Night - Pieces of MILTON , HOMER , and SHAKE- SPEAR . The inimitable Tafle and Excellence of the last in Defcription ...
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... Some Paffages in both cenfured for bad Tafte . MILTON'S Comus , and FLETCHER'S Faithful Shepherdefs , much fuperior to the two Italian dramatic Paftorals . Some Paf- fages cited from the Faithful Shep- herdefs . To PHILEMON . p . 76 ...
... Some Paffages in both cenfured for bad Tafte . MILTON'S Comus , and FLETCHER'S Faithful Shepherdefs , much fuperior to the two Italian dramatic Paftorals . Some Paf- fages cited from the Faithful Shep- herdefs . To PHILEMON . p . 76 ...
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... some " Time they make their Neft ( as the Wife obferve ) and presently endeavouring to propagate their Kind , they beget Pride " and Luxury , which are no fpurious If- fues , but their true and legitimate Off- fpring . Whoever permit ...
... some " Time they make their Neft ( as the Wife obferve ) and presently endeavouring to propagate their Kind , they beget Pride " and Luxury , which are no fpurious If- fues , but their true and legitimate Off- fpring . Whoever permit ...
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... some unsuccessful Attempts to inspire the little God with a mutual Paffion , the re- tired from the World to vent her Com- plaints in melancholy Solitude . ' There dwelt not far from PAPHOS , the Metro- polis of the Country , a Nymph ...
... some unsuccessful Attempts to inspire the little God with a mutual Paffion , the re- tired from the World to vent her Com- plaints in melancholy Solitude . ' There dwelt not far from PAPHOS , the Metro- polis of the Country , a Nymph ...
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... Some modern Authors , who have very justly gained an immortal Reputation by their other Writings , have either totally neglected this important Point , or flightly difcuffed it , as a thing little neceffary , and fubftituted Phyfical ...
... Some modern Authors , who have very justly gained an immortal Reputation by their other Writings , have either totally neglected this important Point , or flightly difcuffed it , as a thing little neceffary , and fubftituted Phyfical ...
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Admiration againſt AGATHOCLES ancient arifes ARISTUS attend Beauty behold bleffed Cauſes Charms Chimæras cœleftial Compofitions Converfation CORINTHIAN Order dare fay defcend defcribed Defcription Defires delightful DEMOCRITUS divine elegant EUDOXUS EUPHEMIUS Eyes faid Faithful Shepherdess fame Fancy feemed feve fhall fhewed fhould fince firft firſt fome foon ftill fuch fuperior fure Genius Grace greateſt Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Hiſtory human Iliad Imagination Imitation Inftruction ingenious itſelf JOVIANUS PONTANUS juft laſt lefs LETTER Love Mankind manner Mind moft moral moſt muſt myſelf Nature neceffary Number Nymph Obfervation Objects Occafion OVID Paffages paffed Paffions Philofophy pleafing Pleaſure Poet Poetry Pow'r Power Precepts prefent raiſe Reaſon refpective reft Repreſentation reſt Roscius Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Soul Species ſpoke ſtill STROZZA Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tion Tranflation Truth Underſtanding uſed utmoſt Virtue whilft whofe whoſe Wiſdom Wiſhes Youth
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Side 128 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Side 193 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Side 37 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Side 24 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful...
Side 126 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Side 38 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Side 51 - When first with fresh-born vigour he inhales The balmy breeze, and feels the blessed sun Warm at his bosom, from the springs of life Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain!
Side 14 - Were destin'd ; some within a finer mould She wrought, and temper'd with a purer flame. To these the Sire omnipotent unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of himself.
Side 24 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Side 17 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...