Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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Side 6
... compofition , than the Greeks . We fee in all their celebrated writers , whether poets , orators , or historians , & c . how intent they were in modelling their periods , periods , and refining their language . The Grecian orator ( 6 )
... compofition , than the Greeks . We fee in all their celebrated writers , whether poets , orators , or historians , & c . how intent they were in modelling their periods , periods , and refining their language . The Grecian orator ( 6 )
Side 10
... poetic fire , the vivida vis animi , or , as Longinus * calls it , the rapid force of lightning , be wanting , the pleasure we receive in reading it will be but cool and languid . We fhall not be hurried on by the force of the poet's ...
... poetic fire , the vivida vis animi , or , as Longinus * calls it , the rapid force of lightning , be wanting , the pleasure we receive in reading it will be but cool and languid . We fhall not be hurried on by the force of the poet's ...
Side 12
... poet ? Some men , without a genius , have , by mere dint of labour , attained to the art of making verfes , but never be- came poets . Many officers have perform- ed their duty excellently well on a parade , and fought at the head of ...
... poet ? Some men , without a genius , have , by mere dint of labour , attained to the art of making verfes , but never be- came poets . Many officers have perform- ed their duty excellently well on a parade , and fought at the head of ...
Side 13
... poets , generals , or ftatefmen ; profeffions much inferior , although they don't require a ge- nius to carry them on , yet are fufficient to difcover one . I have already faid , that invention is its great mark . The invention of a man ...
... poets , generals , or ftatefmen ; profeffions much inferior , although they don't require a ge- nius to carry them on , yet are fufficient to difcover one . I have already faid , that invention is its great mark . The invention of a man ...
Side 14
... poet , painter , or mufician , have great advantages ; a ge- nius for either of thefe profeffions is much eafier difclofed , than that which defigns a youth for a general , or a ftatefman . One boy will find chalk to fketch fi- gures ...
... poet , painter , or mufician , have great advantages ; a ge- nius for either of thefe profeffions is much eafier difclofed , than that which defigns a youth for a general , or a ftatefman . One boy will find chalk to fketch fi- gures ...
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abfurd action Addiſon admire Æneid affertion Aladin alfo alſo antients Ariofto beauties beſt Boffu Boileau Camoens Ceuta cifm compofed compofition confequence confifts criticiſm defcription defects deferves defign difcover difplays Effais fur elegant enthuſiaſm epic poem epic poetry excellent expref fable fame fays fenfibility fentiments fhall fhew fhining fhould fimple fingle firft firſt fome fometimes fpecies fpirit ftanza ftriking ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuperior genius Gierufalemme greateſt Henriade hero himſelf Homer Iliad imagination inftances itſelf juft leaft Leonidas lyric poetry Milton moft Monf moſt mufic muft muſt nature nius noble numbers obferved occafions ouvrages paffages paffing paffions painting Paradife Loft Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Poeme Epique poet poetic poetry praiſe Priam profeffion qu'il racter reader reafon refpect reft Shakeſpear ſhall ſome ſpeak Taffo tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion tout uſe vaft verfe Virgil Voltaire whofe wrote καὶ
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Side 173 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Side 117 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Side 172 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Side 184 - Thy banks ? — alas, is this the boafted fcene, This dreary, wide, uncultivated plain, Where fick'ning Nature wears a fainter green, And Defolation fpreads her torpid reign ? Is this the fcene where Freedom breath'd, Her copious horn where Plenty wreath'd. And health at opening day Bade all her rofeate breezes fly, To wake the fons of Induftry, And make their fields more gay?
Side 84 - Every one has something so singularly his own that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features than the poet has by their manners.
Side 116 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side...
Side 177 - Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?
Side 112 - Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood and them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where only what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would?
Side 174 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Side 152 - They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials of Nature's production, for elevating his fubject, and making it interefting.