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... Ancients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Although difgraceful ' tis their cloaths to wear , 20 S 10 15 } 25 Some Some in a polish'd style write Pastoral , Arcadia ...
... Ancients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Although difgraceful ' tis their cloaths to wear , 20 S 10 15 } 25 Some Some in a polish'd style write Pastoral , Arcadia ...
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... Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid ) Go to the Good and Just , an awful train , Thy foul's ...
... Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid ) Go to the Good and Just , an awful train , Thy foul's ...
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... Ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we : and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They conftantly applied them- felves not only to that art , but to that ...
... Ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we : and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They conftantly applied them- felves not only to that art , but to that ...
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... Ancients ; and it will be found true , that , in every age , the highest character for fense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them . For , to fay truth , what- ever is very good fenfe , must have ...
... Ancients ; and it will be found true , that , in every age , the highest character for fense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them . For , to fay truth , what- ever is very good fenfe , must have ...
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... Ancients . But what he has mixed of his 66 own with theirs is no way inferior to what he has " taken from them . It is not flattery at all to say , that « Virgil had written nothing so good at his Age . His " Preface is very judicious ...
... Ancients . But what he has mixed of his 66 own with theirs is no way inferior to what he has " taken from them . It is not flattery at all to say , that « Virgil had written nothing so good at his Age . His " Preface is very judicious ...
Expressions et termes fréquents
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Page 85 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 111 - Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours...
Page 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 159 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 47 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the Bard...
Page 137 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 86 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,
Page 132 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 103 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 129 - And love of ombre, after death survive. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements their souls retire : The...