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... senses have but imperfectly informed us . Johnson , by his own confession , had no ear ; and on this subject , as well as graver ones , might be inclined to resent opinions , which interfered with his self - love , or disturbed the ...
... senses have but imperfectly informed us . Johnson , by his own confession , had no ear ; and on this subject , as well as graver ones , might be inclined to resent opinions , which interfered with his self - love , or disturbed the ...
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... sense of his merits as a poet , were nevertheless equally agreed , that as a versifier his pre - eminence was not to be touched . * It was the same * See the Essay of Joseph Warton on his Genius and Writings . The Doctor seems to have ...
... sense of his merits as a poet , were nevertheless equally agreed , that as a versifier his pre - eminence was not to be touched . * It was the same * See the Essay of Joseph Warton on his Genius and Writings . The Doctor seems to have ...
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... sense . The truth is , that Mr. Colman ' the Younger , as he calls himself , has been prodigiously overrated in his time , partly perhaps from his real supe- riority to the Dibdins and Reynoldses as a writer of huge farces , and partly ...
... sense . The truth is , that Mr. Colman ' the Younger , as he calls himself , has been prodigiously overrated in his time , partly perhaps from his real supe- riority to the Dibdins and Reynoldses as a writer of huge farces , and partly ...
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... sense . His main talent , both in character and de- scription , lies in strong and homely pieces of detail , which he brings before you as clearly and to the life as in a ca- mera obscura , and in which he has been improperly com- pared ...
... sense . His main talent , both in character and de- scription , lies in strong and homely pieces of detail , which he brings before you as clearly and to the life as in a ca- mera obscura , and in which he has been improperly com- pared ...
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... sense and taste , who happen not to be scholars , have found Horace a dull fellow and Ariosto a dotard . The best translation , upon the whole , that has been produced in our language , both for closeness to the sense and sympathy with ...
... sense and taste , who happen not to be scholars , have found Horace a dull fellow and Ariosto a dotard . The best translation , upon the whole , that has been produced in our language , both for closeness to the sense and sympathy with ...
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Page 39 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the Sun, her Eyes the Gazers strike, And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide: If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. This Nymph, to the destruction of Mankind, Nourish'd two Locks, which graceful hung behind In equal Curls, and well conspir'd to deck With shining Ringlets the smooth Iv'ry Neck.
Page 38 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, 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 every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Page 104 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 39 - But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as...
Page 114 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love's wound — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness l6.
Page 114 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 140 - Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?
Page 134 - Bithynos liquisse campos et videre te in tuto ! o quid solutis est beatius curis ? cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.
Page 114 - Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 141 - Pyrrha, sub antrof cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis? heu quoties fidem mutatosque deos flebit et aspera nigris aequora ventis emirabitur insolens, qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea; qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat nescius aurae fallacis. miseri, quibus intentata nites ! me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo.