The Idler, Том 2T. Davies in Russel-Street, Covent Garden, 1767 |
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... Poets are indebted to him for their happiest thoughts ; by his contrivance the bell was rung twice in Barbarossa , and by his per- fuafion the author of Cleone concluded his Play without a couplet ; for what can be more abfurd , faid ...
... Poets are indebted to him for their happiest thoughts ; by his contrivance the bell was rung twice in Barbarossa , and by his per- fuafion the author of Cleone concluded his Play without a couplet ; for what can be more abfurd , faid ...
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... Poets is not known ; their literary zeal was vehement , but it was fhort , and probably expired before they had time to add the arts of elegance to thofe of neceflity . THE ftady of ancient literature was inter- rupted in Europe by the ...
... Poets is not known ; their literary zeal was vehement , but it was fhort , and probably expired before they had time to add the arts of elegance to thofe of neceflity . THE ftady of ancient literature was inter- rupted in Europe by the ...
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... Poets . This abfurd labour of conftruing into rhyme was countenanced by Johnson in his verfion of Horace ; and whether it be that more men have learning than ge- nius , or that the endeavours of that time were more directed towards ...
... Poets . This abfurd labour of conftruing into rhyme was countenanced by Johnson in his verfion of Horace ; and whether it be that more men have learning than ge- nius , or that the endeavours of that time were more directed towards ...
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... Poets fhook off their constraint , and confidered Tranflation as no longer confined to fervile closeness . But reformation is feldom the work of pure virtue or unaffifted reason . Translation was improved more by accident than ...
... Poets fhook off their constraint , and confidered Tranflation as no longer confined to fervile closeness . But reformation is feldom the work of pure virtue or unaffifted reason . Translation was improved more by accident than ...
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... Poets with fiction or exaggeration . He was now within fix miles of happiness , when having never felt so much . agitation before , he began to wifh his journey at an end , and the last hour was past in chang- ing his posture , and ...
... Poets with fiction or exaggeration . He was now within fix miles of happiness , when having never felt so much . agitation before , he began to wifh his journey at an end , and the last hour was past in chang- ing his posture , and ...
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Страница 258 - I took my first survey of the world, in my twentieth year, having considered the various conditions of mankind, in the hour of solitude I said thus to myself, leaning against a cedar which spread its branches over my head...
Страница 203 - IT is common to overlook what is near, by keeping the eye fixed upon something remote. In the same manner present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges, and intent upon future advantages. Life, however short, is made...
Страница 300 - Who knew no wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go, live ! for heav'n's eternal year is thine ; Go, and exalt thy mortal to divine.
Страница 158 - To conclude, then, by way of corollary ; if it has been proved, that the painter, by attending to the invariable and general ideas of nature, produces beauty, he must, by regarding minute particularities and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal rule, and pollute his canvass with deformity.
Страница 100 - ... or limited ideas ; if he attempts, without the terms of architecture, to delineate the parts, or enumerate the ornaments, his narration at once becomes unintelligible. The terms, indeed, generally...
Страница 247 - ... expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford. Leisure soon made him weary of himself, and he longed to be persuaded that he was great and happy. He was courteous and liberal ; he gave all that approached him hopes of pleasing him, and all who should please him hopes of being rewarded. Every art of praise was tried, and every source of adulatory...