Letters Concerning Taste: To which are Added, Essays on Similar and Other Subjects ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 - 220 páginas |
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... Thought should never venture with any other In- tention than to wonder and adore . But I find I have been imperceptibly led on from Thought to Thought , not only to trespass upon the common Stile of a Let- ter , by these abftrufe ...
... Thought should never venture with any other In- tention than to wonder and adore . But I find I have been imperceptibly led on from Thought to Thought , not only to trespass upon the common Stile of a Let- ter , by these abftrufe ...
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... Thoughts to reft in the Embraces of De- fire ? Sure then I am , that you will al- ways allow Love to be the Source and End of our Being , and confequently con- fiftent with Truth . It is the Superaddi- tion of fuch Charms to Proportion ...
... Thoughts to reft in the Embraces of De- fire ? Sure then I am , that you will al- ways allow Love to be the Source and End of our Being , and confequently con- fiftent with Truth . It is the Superaddi- tion of fuch Charms to Proportion ...
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... thought a little whimfical , till repeated Observation and Experience confirmed , what I advanced in a former Letter to you , that the fame internal Senfe taftes for the three different Powers in hu- man Nature ; and from hence arifes ...
... thought a little whimfical , till repeated Observation and Experience confirmed , what I advanced in a former Letter to you , that the fame internal Senfe taftes for the three different Powers in hu- man Nature ; and from hence arifes ...
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... Thought in different Ex- preffions . To begin then with the cele- brated Simile in the Campaign , which , for half a Century , has been undistinguishingly admired . " So when an Angel by Divine Command " With rifing Tempefts shakes a ...
... Thought in different Ex- preffions . To begin then with the cele- brated Simile in the Campaign , which , for half a Century , has been undistinguishingly admired . " So when an Angel by Divine Command " With rifing Tempefts shakes a ...
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... Thought likewife ? MARCIA'S Si- mile in CATo abounds ftill more with this tirefome Tautology . " So the pure limpid Stream when foul with Stains " Of rufhing Torrents , and descending Rains , " Works itself clear , and as it runs ...
... Thought likewife ? MARCIA'S Si- mile in CATo abounds ftill more with this tirefome Tautology . " So the pure limpid Stream when foul with Stains " Of rufhing Torrents , and descending Rains , " Works itself clear , and as it runs ...
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Admiration againſt AGATHOCLES ancient arifes ARISTUS attend Beauty behold bleffed Cauſes Charms Chimæras cœleftial Compofitions Converfation CORINTHIAN Order dare fay defcend defcribed Defcription Defires delightful DEMOCRITUS divine elegant EUDOXUS EUPHEMIUS Eyes faid Faithful Shepherdess fame Fancy feemed feve fhall fhewed fhould fince firft firſt fome foon ftill fuch fuperior fure Genius Grace greateſt Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Hiſtory human Iliad Imagination Imitation Inftruction ingenious itſelf JOVIANUS PONTANUS juft laſt lefs LETTER Love Mankind manner Mind moft moral moſt muſt myſelf Nature neceffary Number Nymph Obfervation Objects Occafion OVID Paffages paffed Paffions Philofophy pleafing Pleaſure Poet Poetry Pow'r Power Precepts prefent raiſe Reaſon refpective reft Repreſentation reſt Roscius Senfe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Soul Species ſpoke ſtill STROZZA Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tion Tranflation Truth Underſtanding uſed utmoſt Virtue whilft whofe whoſe Wiſdom Wiſhes Youth
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Página 128 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Página 193 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Página 37 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 24 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful...
Página 126 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Página 38 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Página 51 - When first with fresh-born vigour he inhales The balmy breeze, and feels the blessed sun Warm at his bosom, from the springs of life Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain!
Página 14 - Were destin'd ; some within a finer mould She wrought, and temper'd with a purer flame. To these the Sire omnipotent unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of himself.
Página 24 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Página 17 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...