Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, Volumen3T. Cadel, 1787 |
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... last . Yet hard the task to touch on untried facts : Safer the Iliad to reduce to acts , Than be the first new regions to explore , And dwell on themes unknown , untold before . 185 } 190 195 Quit but the vulgar , broad , and beaten ...
... last . Yet hard the task to touch on untried facts : Safer the Iliad to reduce to acts , Than be the first new regions to explore , And dwell on themes unknown , untold before . 185 } 190 195 Quit but the vulgar , broad , and beaten ...
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... : Boileau himself , at the very conclufion of his last Canto , feems to avow and glory in the charge of having founded his work on that of HORACE . Pour Pour moi , qui jufq'ici nourri dans la Satire , NOTES ON THE ART OF POETRY . 143.
... : Boileau himself , at the very conclufion of his last Canto , feems to avow and glory in the charge of having founded his work on that of HORACE . Pour Pour moi , qui jufq'ici nourri dans la Satire , NOTES ON THE ART OF POETRY . 143.
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... last . Boaft not your gallant deeds , romantick men To - night a Female Quixote draws the pen . Arm'd by the Comick Mufe thefe lifts fhe enters , And fallies forth in queft of ftrange Adventures ! War , open War , ' gainft recreant ...
... last . Boaft not your gallant deeds , romantick men To - night a Female Quixote draws the pen . Arm'd by the Comick Mufe thefe lifts fhe enters , And fallies forth in queft of ftrange Adventures ! War , open War , ' gainft recreant ...
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... last moments with his wifh obtain'd , A ROYAL CHARTER by your bounty gain'd ! MR . GIBSON , late of the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden , OCCASIONAL OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE , On the Departure of the MANAGER of AND EPILOGUES . 197 Occafional ...
... last moments with his wifh obtain'd , A ROYAL CHARTER by your bounty gain'd ! MR . GIBSON , late of the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden , OCCASIONAL OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE , On the Departure of the MANAGER of AND EPILOGUES . 197 Occafional ...
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... last year's Almanacks are out of date . " The Fox , the Alchymift , the Silent Woman , " Done by Ben Jonfon , are out done by no Man . ” Thus fay , in rough , but panegyrick rhymes , The Wits and Criticks of our author's times . But But ...
... last year's Almanacks are out of date . " The Fox , the Alchymift , the Silent Woman , " Done by Ben Jonfon , are out done by no Man . ” Thus fay , in rough , but panegyrick rhymes , The Wits and Criticks of our author's times . But But ...
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Página 22 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Página 47 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Página 61 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Página 41 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Página 48 - Our fons their father's failing language fee, And fuch as Chaucer is, fhall Dryden be. So when the faithful pencil has defign'd Some bright idea of the mafter's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand...
Página 211 - Plunged fairly in, like a cold bath it serves, When principles relax, to brace the nerves: Such is my case; and yet I must deplore That the gay dream of dissipation's o'er.
Página 4 - U t silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos ; Prima cadunt : ita verborum vetus interit aetas, Et juvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
Página 212 - The welcome visitors' approach denote; Farewell all quality of high .renown, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious town! Farewell! your revels I partake no more, And Lady Teazle's occupation's o'er! All this I told our bard; he smiled, and said 'twas clear, I ought to play deep tragedy next year.
Página 18 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Página 210 - Old bachelors, who marry smart young wives, Learn from our play to regulate your lives: Each bring his dear to town, all faults upon her — London will prove the very source of honour.