Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, Band 2T. Cadel, 1787 |
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... , I fhall take my leave of you , though perhaps I may foon fend you fome ftrictures , on other political writers . In the mean time I am , as before , yours , RHAPSODISTA . T. I To the PRINTER of the ST . JAMES'S CHRONICLE 24 PROSE ON.
... , I fhall take my leave of you , though perhaps I may foon fend you fome ftrictures , on other political writers . In the mean time I am , as before , yours , RHAPSODISTA . T. I To the PRINTER of the ST . JAMES'S CHRONICLE 24 PROSE ON.
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... perhaps , if I fee caufe . MIDSUM . NIGHT'S DREAM . Audire eft Opere Pretium illorum Impudentiam . TER . Hear , for each hearer must applaud it , Of their vile impudence MY AUDIT ! T is a difagreeable circumftance to be ftationed IT on ...
... perhaps , if I fee caufe . MIDSUM . NIGHT'S DREAM . Audire eft Opere Pretium illorum Impudentiam . TER . Hear , for each hearer must applaud it , Of their vile impudence MY AUDIT ! T is a difagreeable circumftance to be ftationed IT on ...
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... perhaps may live , but I cannot for the deplorable fterility of that spot feeds nothing but my contempt . I run over the bar- ren region , more barren than the country he con- tinually reviles , with all the avidity of the little human ...
... perhaps may live , but I cannot for the deplorable fterility of that spot feeds nothing but my contempt . I run over the bar- ren region , more barren than the country he con- tinually reviles , with all the avidity of the little human ...
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... perhaps , I difcover an abortive vein of Profaick Poetry ; there branches out many a Ramification of Political Vi- rulence ; and there , in a remote corner of the Pia Mater , is lodged a small portion of Bayes's Spirit of Brains , which ...
... perhaps , I difcover an abortive vein of Profaick Poetry ; there branches out many a Ramification of Political Vi- rulence ; and there , in a remote corner of the Pia Mater , is lodged a small portion of Bayes's Spirit of Brains , which ...
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... perhaps fome time or other , by the affistance of Cocker's Arithmetick , fhew my knowledge in fractions , and ftrike the balance between him and the nation . Such a political ledger may perhaps prove that he is in- debted to the Publick ...
... perhaps fome time or other , by the affistance of Cocker's Arithmetick , fhew my knowledge in fractions , and ftrike the balance between him and the nation . Such a political ledger may perhaps prove that he is in- debted to the Publick ...
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Seite 57 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Seite 60 - In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick, but in comedy he seems to repose, or to luxuriate, as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature. In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
Seite 58 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Seite 58 - His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal.
Seite 60 - ... his disposition, as Rhymer has remarked, led him to comedy. In tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and study, what is...
Seite 60 - Brabantio's window, without injury to the scheme of the play, though in terms which a modern audience would not easily endure; the character of Polonius is seasonable and useful; and the Gravediggers themselves may be heard with applause.
Seite 59 - He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable; he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities, knowing that kings love wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings. These are the petty cavils of petty minds; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery.
Seite 117 - I muft know farther, or you have made good But half your Promife.— While my Love flood by» Holding her upright, and my Prefence was A Watch upon her, her Defires being met too With equal Ardour from me, what one Proof Could...
Seite 183 - Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i...
Seite 244 - The variety is so great that it would require a volume; nor would that reach it. Each man's mind has some peculiarity, as well as his face, that distinguishes him from all others; and there are possibly scarce two children who can be conducted by exactly the same method.