Letters Concerning Taste: To which are Added, Essays on Similar and Other Subjects ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 - 220 páginas |
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... Tafle and Excellence of the last in Defcription . Obfervations on a Short Sketch of the Evening by HOMER . Part of an Ode to the Evening by Mr. COLLINS . His animating Group of Figures . b Το Letter To the Same . P. 49 . VIII . CONTENTS .
... Tafle and Excellence of the last in Defcription . Obfervations on a Short Sketch of the Evening by HOMER . Part of an Ode to the Evening by Mr. COLLINS . His animating Group of Figures . b Το Letter To the Same . P. 49 . VIII . CONTENTS .
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... last Letter , that you now allow BEAUTY to be the Daugh- ter of TRUTH ; and I in my turn will make a Conceffion to you , by confeffing that BEAUTY herself may have acquired Charms , but then they are altogether fuch as are confiftent ...
... last Letter , that you now allow BEAUTY to be the Daugh- ter of TRUTH ; and I in my turn will make a Conceffion to you , by confeffing that BEAUTY herself may have acquired Charms , but then they are altogether fuch as are confiftent ...
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... last by every Acquaintance ; and , whilst RAPHAEL'S House was crowded with Friends and Disciples , the World willingly left him to the Enjoyment of his beloved Solitude . RAPHAEL , on the contrary , was a Man of the World , violently ...
... last by every Acquaintance ; and , whilst RAPHAEL'S House was crowded with Friends and Disciples , the World willingly left him to the Enjoyment of his beloved Solitude . RAPHAEL , on the contrary , was a Man of the World , violently ...
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... last Letter , that " ADDISON << was an indifferent Critic , and a worse " Poet . " But however extenfive my Re- gard to the Memory of that great and good Man may be , and however inimi- table and certainly justly admired he ever will be ...
... last Letter , that " ADDISON << was an indifferent Critic , and a worse " Poet . " But however extenfive my Re- gard to the Memory of that great and good Man may be , and however inimi- table and certainly justly admired he ever will be ...
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... last with you at I have felected a very beautiful Parcel of Spar for your Grotto , which I propose to fend in a few Days . I am , Your , & c . & c . LET- LETTER X. To EUGENIO . HAVE fent you , according LETTER IX . 61.
... last with you at I have felected a very beautiful Parcel of Spar for your Grotto , which I propose to fend in a few Days . I am , Your , & c . & c . LET- LETTER X. To EUGENIO . HAVE fent you , according LETTER IX . 61.
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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 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...
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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.
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