A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer; and sold, 1757 - 76 Seiten |
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... languages to be inventors ; can you fuppofe , from what you know of the fashion of that age , that their fancies would not be sprinkled , and their wits refreshed by the effences of the Italian poetry ? I fcarcely need fay a word of our ...
... languages to be inventors ; can you fuppofe , from what you know of the fashion of that age , that their fancies would not be sprinkled , and their wits refreshed by the effences of the Italian poetry ? I fcarcely need fay a word of our ...
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... language , want but little evi- dence to convince us that his great genius did not dif dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man has fo copiously ...
... language , want but little evi- dence to convince us that his great genius did not dif dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man has fo copiously ...
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... language which Dr. HENRY MORE would have us'd if he had known to exprefs him- felf fo foberly . 3. Having faid fo much of Plato ; whom the Ita- lian writers have help'd to make known to us , let me juft obferve one thing , to our ...
... language which Dr. HENRY MORE would have us'd if he had known to exprefs him- felf fo foberly . 3. Having faid fo much of Plato ; whom the Ita- lian writers have help'd to make known to us , let me juft obferve one thing , to our ...
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... language and theology of Paganism . It is true indeed this Species of Imitation is not that which is , properly , the subject of this Letter . The moft original writer is allowed to furnish him- self with poetical ideas from all ...
... language and theology of Paganism . It is true indeed this Species of Imitation is not that which is , properly , the subject of this Letter . The moft original writer is allowed to furnish him- self with poetical ideas from all ...
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... On the other hand , when a man of the world took it into his head , the other day , in a moping fit , to talk Sentences , every body concluded that this was not the the language of the writer or his fituation , but OF IMITATION . 27.
... On the other hand , when a man of the world took it into his head , the other day , in a moping fit , to talk Sentences , every body concluded that this was not the the language of the writer or his fituation , but OF IMITATION . 27.
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Seite 30 - Paffion, all confus'd ; Still by himfelf abus'd or difabus'd; Created half to rife, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of Truth, in endlefs Error hurl'd: The glory, jeft, and riddle of the world...
Seite 17 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Seite 55 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Seite 7 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Seite 43 - Bear me, some god ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense ; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursued th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it, and form'da dream.
Seite 43 - Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd.
Seite 33 - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape. Could he, whofe rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Defcribe or fix one movement of his Mind ? Who faw its fires here rife, and there...
Seite 23 - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Seite 20 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Seite 13 - All muft be falfe that thwart this One great End ; And all of God, that blefs Mankind or mend.