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Strana viii
... vain ; since this vigo- rous attack drove him into that obscurity from which , for the peace of society , he was destined never more to emerge . September 1st , 1810 . S. TIPPER . INTRODUCTION . IN 1785 , a few English of both.
... vain ; since this vigo- rous attack drove him into that obscurity from which , for the peace of society , he was destined never more to emerge . September 1st , 1810 . S. TIPPER . INTRODUCTION . IN 1785 , a few English of both.
Strana ix
... never entered my head ; and I was thun- derstruck when I first saw it announced . To execute it with any tolerable degree of success , required a rare com- bination of talents , among the least of which may be [ x ] understood too ...
... never entered my head ; and I was thun- derstruck when I first saw it announced . To execute it with any tolerable degree of success , required a rare com- bination of talents , among the least of which may be [ x ] understood too ...
Strana xii
... never pre- tended to critise their harmless productions , they were merely perused , laughed at , and forgotten . A paper , therefore , which introduced their trash with hyperbolical encomiums , and called upon the town to admire it ...
... never pre- tended to critise their harmless productions , they were merely perused , laughed at , and forgotten . A paper , therefore , which introduced their trash with hyperbolical encomiums , and called upon the town to admire it ...
Strana xiii
... never looked into the Florence Miscellany but once ; and the only use then made of it , was to extract a sounding passage from the odes of that deep - mouthed Theban , Bertie Great- head , Esq . fell desperately in love with each other ...
... never looked into the Florence Miscellany but once ; and the only use then made of it , was to extract a sounding passage from the odes of that deep - mouthed Theban , Bertie Great- head , Esq . fell desperately in love with each other ...
Strana 11
... never been written ! ) instead of gratifying the ambition of Mr. Parsons , as I fondly ex- pected , and quieting him for ever , had a most fatal effect upon his poor head , and from an honest pains - taking gen- tleman converted him ...
... never been written ! ) instead of gratifying the ambition of Mr. Parsons , as I fondly ex- pected , and quieting him for ever , had a most fatal effect upon his poor head , and from an honest pains - taking gen- tleman converted him ...
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ADMIRED aforesaid Album Anna Matilda ANTHONY PASQUIN applause Arno Baviad Bell brains breast character Children of Thespis critics Crusca defamatory libels delight dreadful Edwin Erskine false fame fancy fate Faulder folly fool fustian Garrow genius gentle gentleman GEORGE NICHOLS give Greathead hæc hand HARVARD COLLEGE Hastings hate head heart heaven honour Hoppner horse-leech hour IMITATIONS infamy injured Jerningham JOHN HOPPNER JOHN WILLIAMS labours Laura Maria learned friend Lowton lyre Mæviad Muse name of Pasquin never Nightman NOTES o'er Oracle Parsons Pin-basket Pindar Plaintiff poem poetry poor Pope praise PRINTER'S DEVIL published racter reader rhyme riff-raff satire scandalous sense smile Somerfield song sonnet soul strains sweet taste thee thine thing thou thought thro tion Tom Fool truth Vaughan verse Weston word write written YENDA
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Strana xiii - crashing torrents,' and ' petrifying suns.' From admiration to imitation is but a step. Honest Yenda tried his hand at a descriptive ode, and succeeded beyond his hopes : Anna Matilda...
Strana 21 - Hypsipylas, vatum et plorabile si quid, ,,eliquat, ac tenero supplantat verba palato. 35 ,,Assensere viri. nunc non cinis ille poetae ,, Felix? non levior cippus nunc imprimit ossa? ,,Laudant convivae. nunc non e Manibus illis, ,,nunc non e tumulo fortunataque favilla ,,nascentur violae? rides, ait, et nimis uncis 40 ,,naribus indulges.
Strana 101 - And who with pious hand shall bring The flowers she cherish'd, snowdrops cold, And violets that unheeded spring, To scatter o'er her hallow'd mould ? And who, while memory loves to dwell Upon her name, for ever dear, Shall feel his heart with passion swell, And pour the bitter, bitter tear...
Strana 74 - Defendente vicem modo rhetoris atque poetae, Interdum urbani parcentis viribus atque Extenuantis eas consulto. Ridiculum acri Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.
Strana 141 - ... greatly injured in his said good name, fame, and credit, and brought into public scandal, infamy, and disgrace, with and amongst all his neighbours and other good and worthy subjects of this realm, insomuch that divers of those...
Strana 75 - What commonplace talking is that? Here is some more of the same stuff: — Then let your style be brief, your meaning clear, Nor, like Lorenzo, tire the labouring ear With a wild waste of words; sound without sense, And all the florid glare of impotence. Still, with your characters your language change, — From grave to gay, as nature dictates, range; Now droop in all the plaintiveness of woe, — (!!) Now in glad numbers light and airy flow; Now shake the stage with guilt's alarming tone, (!!)...
Strana 19 - ... quo didicisse, nisi hoc fermentum et quae semel intus innata est rupto iecore exierit caprificus?' 25 en pallor seniumque! o mores, usque adeone scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? 'at pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est." ten cirratorum centum dictata fuisse pro nihilo pendes?
Strana 26 - ... belle' hoc excute totum: quid non intus habet? non hie est Ilias Atti 50 ebria veratro? non siqua elegidia crudi dictarunt proceres? non quidquid denique lectis scribitur in citreis? calidum scis ponere sumen, scis comitem horridulum trita donare lacerna, et 'verum' inquis 'amo, verum mihi dicite de me.
Strana 30 - Some love the verse that like Maria's flows. No rubs to stagger, and no sense to pose ; Which read, and read, you raise your eyes in doubt, And gravely wonder — what it is about. These fancy
Strana 35 - Oh for the good old times ! When all was new, And every hour brought prodigies to view, Our sires in unaffected language told Of streams of amber, and of rocks of gold : Full of their theme, they spurn'd all idle art ; And the plain tale was trusted to the heart.