Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 44
... lines ; " No fly me , fly me , far as pole from pole ; " Rise Alps between us , and whole oceans roll ! " Ah ! come not , write not , think not once of me . " 5th . Exile- " Methinks we wandering go " Through dreary wastes , and weep ...
... lines ; " No fly me , fly me , far as pole from pole ; " Rise Alps between us , and whole oceans roll ! " Ah ! come not , write not , think not once of me . " 5th . Exile- " Methinks we wandering go " Through dreary wastes , and weep ...
Side 54
... lines which I have just quoted ; and in the fol- lowing from Swift's verses on his death . 68 My female friends , whose tender hearts " Have better learn'd to act their parts , " Receive the news in doleful dumps : " The Dean is dead ...
... lines which I have just quoted ; and in the fol- lowing from Swift's verses on his death . 68 My female friends , whose tender hearts " Have better learn'd to act their parts , " Receive the news in doleful dumps : " The Dean is dead ...
Side 55
... lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; " Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare , " And beauty draws us with a single hair . ” In these lines , and in all the poem , a slight circumstance is magnified into something of apparent ...
... lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; " Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare , " And beauty draws us with a single hair . ” In these lines , and in all the poem , a slight circumstance is magnified into something of apparent ...
Side 58
... lines : " And the gaunt mastiff , growling at the gate , 66 Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat . " Where a number of opposite ideas are imme diately excited without being expressed . I may quote also the description of Hudibras's ...
... lines : " And the gaunt mastiff , growling at the gate , 66 Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat . " Where a number of opposite ideas are imme diately excited without being expressed . I may quote also the description of Hudibras's ...
Side 59
... lines of Buckingham , when speaking of comedy- “ Humour is all , wit should be only brought , " To turn agreeably some proper thought . " ESSAY ON POETRY .. There is an inferior species of wit , which re- THE LUDICROUS . 59.
... lines of Buckingham , when speaking of comedy- “ Humour is all , wit should be only brought , " To turn agreeably some proper thought . " ESSAY ON POETRY .. There is an inferior species of wit , which re- THE LUDICROUS . 59.
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