Essays by a Society of Gentlemen, at ExeterTrewman and son, 1796 - 573 Seiten |
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Seite 243 - The religion of the Gentiles had been woven into the contexture of all the ancient poetry, with a very agreeable mixture,, which made the moderns affect to give that of Christianity a place also in their; poems. But the true religion was not found to become fiction so well as a false had done, and all their attempts of this kind seemed rather to debase religion, than to heighten poetry.
Seite 263 - Rife from the ground like feather'd Mercury } And vaulted with fuch eafe into his feat, ' As if an Angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegafus, And witch the world with noble horfemanmip.
Seite 225 - Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
Seite 257 - Tale" was not entered at Stationers' Hall, [neither does it appear that the other comedy was] nor printed till 1623 ; but probably is the play mentioned by Meres under the title of
Seite 145 - A person of rank scarcely stirred out without his hawk on his hand, which in old paintings is the criterion of nobility. Harold, afterwards king of England, when he went on a most important embassy into Normandy, is drawn in an old bas-relief, as embarking with a bird on his fist and a dog under his arm.
Seite 393 - Even the inferior characters of this play would be very confpicuous in any other piece, not only for their juftnefs, but their ftrength.
Seite 134 - Rear the triumphal arch, rich with th' exploits Of thy illuftrious houfe ; while virgins pave Thy way with flow'rs, and...
Seite 143 - ... they hunt. Husbandmen, with their harmless herds and flocks, are driven from their well-cultivated fields, their meadows and their pastures, that wild beasts may range in them without interruption.
Seite 225 - Lord, with his fore and great and ftrong fword, fhall punifh leviathan, the piercing ferpent, even leviathan, that crooked ferpent ; and he fhall flay the dragon that is in the fea.
Seite 482 - Hail, awful scenes, that calm the troubled breast, And woo the weary to profound repose ! Can Passion's wildest uproar lay to rest, And whisper comfort to the man of woes ! Here Innocence may wander, safe from foes, And Contemplation soar on seraph wings. O Solitude ! the man who thee foregoes, When lucre lures him, or ambition stings, Shall never know the source whence real grandeur springs.