The Baviad, and MaeviadBecket and Porter, 1811 - 191 strán (strany) |
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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 dicere dreadful Dunciad Edwin Erskine false fame fancy Faulder folly fool fustian Garrow genius gentle gentleman Greathead hæc hand 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 Anthony name of Pasquin never Nightman NOTES o'er Oracle Parsons PIN-BASKET Plaintiff poem poetry poor Pope praise PRINTER'S DEVIL profligate cowards 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 WARREN HASTINGS Weston word write written YENDA
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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 35 - Full of their theme, they spurn'd all idle art ; And the plain tale was trusted to the heart. Now all is changed ! We fume, and fret, poor elves, Less to display our subject, than ourselves : Whate'er we paint — a grot, a flower, a bird, Heavens, how we sweat! laboriously absurd!
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Strana 57 - Delia Crusca appeared no more in the Oracle, and, if any of his followers ventured to treat the town with a soft sonnet, it was not, as before, introduced by a pompous preface. Pope and Milton resumed their superiority ; and Este and his coadjutors silently acquiesced in the growing opinion of their incompetency, and showed some sense of shame.
Strana 81 - What an admirable observer of nature is this great poetess ! The stars twinkling in a cloudy night, and gleaming their borrowed luster, is superlatively good. I had almost forgot to observe that these and the preceding lines are taken from the Ode to the Nightingale, so superior, in the reverend judgment of Dr. Tasker, to one of a Mr. John Milton on the same subject. " - The lightning's rays Leap through the night's scarce pervious gloom, Attracted by " - (what! for a ducat'?) " Attracted by the...