Juvenile poemsA. Millar, 1757 |
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... Eclogue , in Imitation of Virgil's Pellio , 39 Windfor - Foreft , 49 Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , 73 Ode en Solitude , Two Chorus's to the Tragedy of Brutus , Effay on Criticism , The Rape of the Lock , Elegy to the Memory of an ...
... Eclogue , in Imitation of Virgil's Pellio , 39 Windfor - Foreft , 49 Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , 73 Ode en Solitude , Two Chorus's to the Tragedy of Brutus , Effay on Criticism , The Rape of the Lock , Elegy to the Memory of an ...
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... eclogue natural , and the laft de- lightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this Idea along with us , that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age . So that we are not to describe our fhepherds as ...
... eclogue natural , and the laft de- lightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this Idea along with us , that Paftoral is an image of what they call the golden age . So that we are not to describe our fhepherds as ...
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... Eclogue fhould be fo too . For we cannot fuppofe Poetry in those days to have been the business of men , but their re- creation at vacant hours . But with a refpect to the prefent age , nothing more conduces to make these compofures ...
... Eclogue fhould be fo too . For we cannot fuppofe Poetry in those days to have been the business of men , but their re- creation at vacant hours . But with a refpect to the prefent age , nothing more conduces to make these compofures ...
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... Eclogue being on the fame fubject with mine on Mrs. " Tempeft's death , I fhould take it very kindly in you " to give it a little turn , as if it were to the memory of " the fame lady . " Her death having happened on the 66 IMITATIONS ...
... Eclogue being on the fame fubject with mine on Mrs. " Tempeft's death , I fhould take it very kindly in you " to give it a little turn , as if it were to the memory of " the fame lady . " Her death having happened on the 66 IMITATIONS ...
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... eclogue , which in its general turn alludes to it . The scene of the Pastoral lies in a grove , the time at midnight . P. VER . 9. fhine with filver froft , ] The image is a fine one , but improperly placed . The idea he would raife is ...
... eclogue , which in its general turn alludes to it . The scene of the Pastoral lies in a grove , the time at midnight . P. VER . 9. fhine with filver froft , ] The image is a fine one , but improperly placed . The idea he would raife is ...
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Página 84 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Página 187 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Página 50 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 44 - On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Página 171 - Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant brain, While Peers, and Dukes, and all their sweeping train, And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear...
Página xv - All that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients ; and it will be found true that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them.
Página 112 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Página 119 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.
Página 177 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Página 211 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?