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... present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth . " It is a circumstance of literary history worth men- tioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 when ...
... present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth . " It is a circumstance of literary history worth men- tioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 when ...
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... present magnificent Royal Li- brary at Paris . The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been versified by Dryden ; and is supposed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance as is also the elegant VISION of the Flower and the Leaf ...
... present magnificent Royal Li- brary at Paris . The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been versified by Dryden ; and is supposed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance as is also the elegant VISION of the Flower and the Leaf ...
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... present at the lists and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and oblite- rated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the pro- fusion , of such animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leisure dully and ...
... present at the lists and a modern combat , is overwhelmed and oblite- rated amidst the blaze , the pomp , and the pro- fusion , of such animated poetry . Frigid and phlegmatic must be the critic , who could have leisure dully and ...
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... our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the present edition , I shall speak no more of it . * Page 78 . The The Imitation of Spenser is the second ; it is 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... our author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the present edition , I shall speak no more of it . * Page 78 . The The Imitation of Spenser is the second ; it is 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... present occasion , is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her is said to resemble Phaeton so much , eye That heaven , the threat'ned world to spare , Thought fit to drown him in her tears : Else might th ' ambitious nymph aspire ...
... present occasion , is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her is said to resemble Phaeton so much , eye That heaven , the threat'ned world to spare , Thought fit to drown him in her tears : Else might th ' ambitious nymph aspire ...
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Strona 236 - Peace to all such ! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 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, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Strona 77 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Strona 111 - Touch their immortal harps of golden wires, With those just spirits that wear victorious palms, Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly ; That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise ; As once we did, till disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair music that all creatures made To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'J In perfect diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience, and their state of good.
Strona 64 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Strona 249 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Strona 180 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Strona 59 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Strona 205 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Strona 287 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Strona 94 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flowery lawn: Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.