Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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Side 49
... less convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books well - bred : His heart , his mistress , and his friend did fhare , His time , the Mufe , the witty , and the fair . 10 Thus wifely careless , innocently gay , Chearful ...
... less convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books well - bred : His heart , his mistress , and his friend did fhare , His time , the Mufe , the witty , and the fair . 10 Thus wifely careless , innocently gay , Chearful ...
Side 101
... less noisy Fame Attend the fhade of gentle BUCKINGHAM : In whom a Race , for Courage fam'd and Art , Ends in the milder Merit of the Heart ; And Chiefs or Sages long to Britain giv'n , Pays the last Tribute of a Saint to Heav'n . For ...
... less noisy Fame Attend the fhade of gentle BUCKINGHAM : In whom a Race , for Courage fam'd and Art , Ends in the milder Merit of the Heart ; And Chiefs or Sages long to Britain giv'n , Pays the last Tribute of a Saint to Heav'n . For ...
Side 105
... his whole person , that whether or no he had any other cloaths ( much less any lin- nen ) under it , I shall not fay ; but his sword ap- pear'd a full yard behind him , and his manner of wearing it was it ff , that it seem'd grown ( 105 )
... his whole person , that whether or no he had any other cloaths ( much less any lin- nen ) under it , I shall not fay ; but his sword ap- pear'd a full yard behind him , and his manner of wearing it was it ff , that it seem'd grown ( 105 )
Side 130
Alexander Pope. * me Walk & hot and cholerick , but Cheese and * Less " De French derive their levity from their Steps Frogs and Mathrooms : I would not - So one ke an Italian , left like an Ita- but te band be jus and revengeful : The ...
Alexander Pope. * me Walk & hot and cholerick , but Cheese and * Less " De French derive their levity from their Steps Frogs and Mathrooms : I would not - So one ke an Italian , left like an Ita- but te band be jus and revengeful : The ...
Side 201
... with any high Relish in Poe- try , but are in this one Tafte less nice than our ancestors . If an Art is to be eftimated by its fuc- cefs , I appeal to experience whether there have not Of the ART OF SINKING IN POETRY . 201.
... with any high Relish in Poe- try , but are in this one Tafte less nice than our ancestors . If an Art is to be eftimated by its fuc- cefs , I appeal to experience whether there have not Of the ART OF SINKING IN POETRY . 201.
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Side 386 - The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank. Accordingly we find that not our author's only but almost all the old comedies have their scene among tradesmen and mechanics; and even their historical plays strictly follow the common old stories or vulgar traditions of that kind of people.
Side 286 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Side 322 - However it be, I do not know, I say, why this prejudice, well improved and carried as far as it would go, might not be made to conduce to the preservation of many innocent creatures, which are now exposed to all the wantonness of an ignorant barbarity.
Side 92 - Who knew no Wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heav'n's Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine.
Side 352 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Side 388 - Another cause (and no less strong than the former) may be deduced from our author's being a player, and forming himself first upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member.
Side 196 - But all that lies between thefe, as Corn, Flower, Fruits...
Side 396 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Side 378 - ... with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next...
Side 388 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.