 | 1806 - 408 pages
...and Celsus, with his guide, withdrew. RULES fcr WRITING WELL. (DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S ESSAY ON POETRT.} OF all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief master-piece is writing well : No writing lifts exalted man so high, As sacred and soul-moving poesy : .... No kind of work requires... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...moon, His ghost shall glide over the green.' JO BN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. AN ESSAY ON POETRY. OF all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well ; No writing lifts exalted man so high, As sacred and soul-moving poesy : No kind of work requires... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...blessings orown his shade, And grant that peace he wanted here! § 48. An Essay on Poetry *. Buckingham. CHvBCoŸ &hQC$ N [2^ 9N MO F[ f c;S ⚗ y # ~ ; N` Gל wtil : No writing lifts exalted man so high As sacred and soul-moving Poesy: N'o kind of work requires... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pages
..." Ah, poor Eurydice !" hu dying cry'd; Eurydice resounds from every side. AX ESS.4Y ON POETRY1. Or all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief master-piece is writing well: No writing lifts exalted man so high, As sacred and will -moving Poesy: No kind of work requires so... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pages
..." Ah, poor Eurydice !" he dying cry'dj Eurydice resounds from every side. AN ESSAY Off POETRY1. Or all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief master-piece is writing wellt No writing lifts exalted man so high, As sacivd and soul -moving Poesy : No kind of work requires... | |
 | P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...from vice anil error to reclaim , And breathe in human breast celestial flame. FALCONER. ON POETRY. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief master-piece is writing well : No writing lifts exalted man so high , As sacred and soul-moving (2) poesy : No kind of work requires... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...little true poetry, or less, than any of Dryden's prose essays. [Extract from the Eaay on Poetry.] n the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills, and they To ; No writing lift -i exalted man so high, As sacred and soul-moving poesy : No kind of work requires... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...perspicuous, and sensible, but contains little of true poetry. We subjoin the following extract : — Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief master-piece is writing well ; No writing lifts exalted man so high, As sacred and soul-moving poesy: No kind of work requires so... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...perspicuous, and sensible, but contains little of true poetry. We subjoin the following extract : — Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief master-piece is writing well ; • No writing lifts exalted man so high, As sacred and soul-moving poesy: No kind of work requires... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...since the conquest have been fools. SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 1649-1721. Essay on Poetry. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. There 's no such thing in nature, and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Read... | |
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