The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1760 - English poetry |
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Page 74
... learning of Propertius , especially in his fourth book , more fet out to oftentation ; yet their common practice was to look no further before them than the next line ; whence it will inevitably follow , that they can drive to no ...
... learning of Propertius , especially in his fourth book , more fet out to oftentation ; yet their common practice was to look no further before them than the next line ; whence it will inevitably follow , that they can drive to no ...
Page 75
... learning ) the Romans ufually did imitate . But it appears not from their writings , that any of the Grecians ever touched upon this way , which our Poet therefore justly has vindicated to himself . I quarrel not at the word Heroidum ...
... learning ) the Romans ufually did imitate . But it appears not from their writings , that any of the Grecians ever touched upon this way , which our Poet therefore justly has vindicated to himself . I quarrel not at the word Heroidum ...
Page 80
... have all the talents , which are requifite for tranflation , and that there is fo little praife , and fo fmall encouragement , for fo confiderable a part of learning . CANACE TO MACAREUS . то EPIST . XI . THE 80 PREFACE .
... have all the talents , which are requifite for tranflation , and that there is fo little praife , and fo fmall encouragement , for fo confiderable a part of learning . CANACE TO MACAREUS . то EPIST . XI . THE 80 PREFACE .
Page 149
... learning speak ; She thinks you conjure , when you talk in Greek . And hence ' tis often seen , the simple shun The learn'd , and into vile embraces run . Part of my tafk is done , and part to do : But here ' tis time to reft myself and ...
... learning speak ; She thinks you conjure , when you talk in Greek . And hence ' tis often seen , the simple shun The learn'd , and into vile embraces run . Part of my tafk is done , and part to do : But here ' tis time to reft myself and ...
Page 160
... learning : when thus , as I may fay , before the ufe of the loadstone , or knowledge of the com- pafs , I was failing in a vaft ocean , without other help than the pole - ftar of the ancients , and the rules of the French Stage amongst ...
... learning : when thus , as I may fay , before the ufe of the loadstone , or knowledge of the com- pafs , I was failing in a vaft ocean , without other help than the pole - ftar of the ancients , and the rules of the French Stage amongst ...
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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...