The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1760 - English poetry |
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Page 73
... subject fo uncertain , and to write somewhat more authentic of this Poet : that he frequented the court of Auguftus , and was well received in it , is moft un- doubted : all his Poems bear the character of a court , and ap- pear to be ...
... subject fo uncertain , and to write somewhat more authentic of this Poet : that he frequented the court of Auguftus , and was well received in it , is moft un- doubted : all his Poems bear the character of a court , and ap- pear to be ...
Page 78
... subject : that is , not to tranflate his words , or to be confined to his fenfe , but only to fet him as a pattern , and to write , as he fuppofes that author would have done , had he lived in our age , and in our country . Yet I dare ...
... subject : that is , not to tranflate his words , or to be confined to his fenfe , but only to fet him as a pattern , and to write , as he fuppofes that author would have done , had he lived in our age , and in our country . Yet I dare ...
Page 85
... subjects with his cries . With one fierce puff he blows the leaves away : Expos'd the self - discover'd infant lay . The noise reach'd me , and my prefaging mind Too foon its own approaching woes divin'd . Not ships at fea with winds ...
... subjects with his cries . With one fierce puff he blows the leaves away : Expos'd the self - discover'd infant lay . The noise reach'd me , and my prefaging mind Too foon its own approaching woes divin'd . Not ships at fea with winds ...
Page 101
... subjects you could fee , Still would you want a wife who lov'd like me . For , oh , I burn , like fires with incense bright : Not holy tapers flame with purer light : Æneas is my thoughts perpetual theme ; Their daily longing , and ...
... subjects you could fee , Still would you want a wife who lov'd like me . For , oh , I burn , like fires with incense bright : Not holy tapers flame with purer light : Æneas is my thoughts perpetual theme ; Their daily longing , and ...
Page 122
... Subject them too , by force of arms , to Rome . Great father Mars with greater Cæfar join , To give a profp'rous omen to your line : One of you is , and one fhall be divine . I prophefy you fhall , you fhall o'ercome : My verse shall ...
... Subject them too , by force of arms , to Rome . Great father Mars with greater Cæfar join , To give a profp'rous omen to your line : One of you is , and one fhall be divine . I prophefy you fhall , you fhall o'ercome : My verse shall ...
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Page 308 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 214 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Page 78 - I take imitation of an author in their sense to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him on the same subject: that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write as he supposes that author would have done had he lived in our age, and in our country.
Page 8 - As well he may compare the day with night. Night is indeed the province of his reign: Yet all his dark exploits no more contain, Than a spy taken, and a sleeper slain...
Page 215 - Neither is it true, that this fineness of raillery is offensive. A witty man is tickled while he is hurt in this manner, and a fool feels it not.
Page 168 - Spenser; he aims at the accomplishment of no one action; he raises up a hero for every one of his adventures, and endows each of them with...
Page 215 - ... there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly was only belonging to her husband.
Page 79 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...
Page 44 - Not so the Golden Age, who fed on fruit, Nor durst with bloody meals their mouths pollute. Then birds in airy space might safely move. And...
Page 290 - Provide against th' extremities of want ; But womankind, that never knows a mean, Down to the dregs their sinking fortune drain : Hourly they give, and spend, and waste, and wear : And think no pleasure can be bought too dear. There are, who in...