Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and SheridanArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
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... Woman , Epitaph on Francis Chartres , Epigram , Epitaph of By - words , Epigram from the French , Epitaph , Epigram on the Toasts of the Kitcat Club ib . 356 359 362 365 368 369 371 Verse to a Lady , with the Temple of Fame , Catalogue ...
... Woman , Epitaph on Francis Chartres , Epigram , Epitaph of By - words , Epigram from the French , Epitaph , Epigram on the Toasts of the Kitcat Club ib . 356 359 362 365 368 369 371 Verse to a Lady , with the Temple of Fame , Catalogue ...
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... woman , or a man's head where his heels should be ; how are they struck with trans- port and delight ! which can only be imputed to this cause , that each object is changed into that which hath been suggested to them by their own low ...
... woman , or a man's head where his heels should be ; how are they struck with trans- port and delight ! which can only be imputed to this cause , that each object is changed into that which hath been suggested to them by their own low ...
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... woman sometimes pretty- face and pigs - eyes , and sometimes snooty - nose and draggle - tail . Or , of accidents , for persons ; as a lawyer , is called split - cause , a tailor , prick - louse , & c . Or of things belonging to a man ...
... woman sometimes pretty- face and pigs - eyes , and sometimes snooty - nose and draggle - tail . Or , of accidents , for persons ; as a lawyer , is called split - cause , a tailor , prick - louse , & c . Or of things belonging to a man ...
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... woman in great necessity : Distended with the waters in ' em pent , The clouds hang deep in air , but hang unrent . 3. The INFANTINE . This is , when a poet grows so very simple , as to think and talk like a child . I shall take my ex ...
... woman in great necessity : Distended with the waters in ' em pent , The clouds hang deep in air , but hang unrent . 3. The INFANTINE . This is , when a poet grows so very simple , as to think and talk like a child . I shall take my ex ...
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... of the few instances in which Sir Richard's sense is wrest- ed into nonsense by the satirist . + Blackmore , Ps . civ . p . 261 . Lec , Sophonisba . women . It consists wholly of metaphors drawn from two OF SINKING IN POETRY . 79.
... of the few instances in which Sir Richard's sense is wrest- ed into nonsense by the satirist . + Blackmore , Ps . civ . p . 261 . Lec , Sophonisba . women . It consists wholly of metaphors drawn from two OF SINKING IN POETRY . 79.
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Página 149 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Página 153 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen: He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
Página 89 - French have already laid down many mechanical rules for compositions of this sort, but at the same time they cut off almost all undertakers from the possibility of ever performing them; for the first qualification they unanimously require in a poet, is a genius. I shall here endeavour (for the benefit of my countrymen) to make it manifest, that epic poems may be made "without a genius", nay, without learning or much reading.
Página 176 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.