Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... writers difplays great ge- nius , fuch as Homer and Virgil , Cicero and Livy ; and we oftener meet with mediocrity of ftyle than moderate inven- tion . As fome writers compose well , and think ill ; fo others think well , but cannot ...
... writers difplays great ge- nius , fuch as Homer and Virgil , Cicero and Livy ; and we oftener meet with mediocrity of ftyle than moderate inven- tion . As fome writers compose well , and think ill ; fo others think well , but cannot ...
Side 4
... writers who want invention , have recourse to the beauties of compofition , to hide their poverty of thought ? I have already obferved , that the matter is by far the most important part ; and the graces of compofition , in an inferior ...
... writers who want invention , have recourse to the beauties of compofition , to hide their poverty of thought ? I have already obferved , that the matter is by far the most important part ; and the graces of compofition , in an inferior ...
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... writers think to deceive the world ; they attempt it alfo by fetting an old thought in a new light , varying fome circumstances of it , and applying it in a manner different from what it was before . Some men gain a reputation by this ...
... writers think to deceive the world ; they attempt it alfo by fetting an old thought in a new light , varying fome circumstances of it , and applying it in a manner different from what it was before . Some men gain a reputation by this ...
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... 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 )
... 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 )
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... writers of tragedy , who enjoyed every advan- tage , which ' tis fuppofed Shakespear want- ed yet , what is there in their works that will make amends for fo great a want ? Will any one dare to name Elfrida in comparison with any of ...
... writers of tragedy , who enjoyed every advan- tage , which ' tis fuppofed Shakespear want- ed yet , what is there in their works that will make amends for fo great a want ? Will any one dare to name Elfrida in comparison with any of ...
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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.