The Baviad, and MaeviadS. Tipper, 1810 - 191 strán (strany) |
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abuse ADMIRED aforesaid Album Anna Matilda ANTHONY PASQUIN applause Arno Baviad Bell brains breast character Children of Thespis critics Crusca defamatory libels delight dicere dreadful Dunciad Edwin Erskine false fame fancy fate Faulder folly fool fustian Garrow genius gentle gentleman Greathead hæc hand Hastings head heart heaven honour Hoppner horse-leech hour IMITATIONS infamy injured Jerningham JOHN HOPPNER JOHN WILLIAMS labours Laura Maria learned friend Lowton lyre Mæviad Menander 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 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 virtue WARREN HASTINGS 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 followed ; in a word, " Contagio labem Hanc dedit in plures, sicut grex totus in agris Unius scabie cadit, et porrigine porci.
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 134 - ... and to bring him into public scandal, infamy, and disgrace with and amongst all his neighbours, and other good and worthy subjects of this...
Strana 141 - Plaintiffhad been and was 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 95 - Retire, retire ! These tepid airs Are not the genial brood of May ; That sun with light malignant glares, And flatters only to betray. " Stern Winter's reign is not yet past — Lo ! while your buds prepare to blow, On icy pinions comes the blast, And nips your root, and lays you low. " Alas, for such ungentle doom ! But I will shield you ; and supply A kindlier soil on which to bloom, A nobler bed on which to die. " Come then — 'ere yet the morning ray Has drunk the dew that gems your crest,...
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 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 133 - Yet the said defendant well knowing the premises but greatly envying the happy state and condition of the said plaintiff, and contriving, and wickedly and maliciously intending to injure the said plaintiff in his said good name, fame, and credit...
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 xi - In this paper," says Mr. Gifford, in his preface to the Baviad, " were given the earliest specimens of those unqualified and audacious attacks on all private character, which the town first smiled at for their quaintness, then tolerated for their absurdity; and — now that other papers equally wicked and more intelligible have ventured to imitate it — will have to lament to the last hour of British liberty.