Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... noble elm , which in its uppermost branches was much withered and decayed : point- ing at it , he faid , " I fhall be like that tree , I fhall die at top . " As in this he feemed to pro- phefy like the Sybils ; if , like one of them ...
... noble elm , which in its uppermost branches was much withered and decayed : point- ing at it , he faid , " I fhall be like that tree , I fhall die at top . " As in this he feemed to pro- phefy like the Sybils ; if , like one of them ...
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... this blafted branch of a noble genius , like her too he might have risen in his demand for the reft * . • Conjectures on Original Compofition , p . 65 . Difpenfary , canto iv . # The verfification is mufical , and the whole paffage ( 43 )
... this blafted branch of a noble genius , like her too he might have risen in his demand for the reft * . • Conjectures on Original Compofition , p . 65 . Difpenfary , canto iv . # The verfification is mufical , and the whole paffage ( 43 )
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... Thus far was right ; the rest belongs to heav'n . What a noble conclufion is this of the prologue to the Satires ? Thefe lines are fo excessively pleafing , pathetic , and poe- poetical , that I could not forbear infert- ing the ( 86 )
... Thus far was right ; the rest belongs to heav'n . What a noble conclufion is this of the prologue to the Satires ? Thefe lines are fo excessively pleafing , pathetic , and poe- poetical , that I could not forbear infert- ing the ( 86 )
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thefe four : they are all very good , but that is far more noble than the Alter ubi dicto citius curata fopori Membra dedit , vegetus præfcripta ad munia furgit , of Horace . In the firft epiftle the fol- lowing lines are excellent ...
thefe four : they are all very good , but that is far more noble than the Alter ubi dicto citius curata fopori Membra dedit , vegetus præfcripta ad munia furgit , of Horace . In the firft epiftle the fol- lowing lines are excellent ...
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... they fet 1 . Thefe noble lines are truly fublime , and most admirably imitated from the + Rambler , Vol . iv . No. 160 . Book II . Ep . i . verse 19 . H 3 ori . original . It is a melancholy reflection , that envy ( 101 )
... they fet 1 . Thefe noble lines are truly fublime , and most admirably imitated from the + Rambler , Vol . iv . No. 160 . Book II . Ep . i . verse 19 . H 3 ori . original . It is a melancholy reflection , that envy ( 101 )
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Seite 86 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 175 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Seite 55 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 56 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 167 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
Seite 36 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 169 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt...
Seite 36 - Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Seite 13 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Seite 34 - If his grace and his wit improve both proportionably, he will hardly find that he has gained much by the change he has made, from having no religion, to choose one of the worst.