An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. PopeT. Cadell, 1782 - 95 strán (strany) |
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... his longest days and his longest nights . When he had finished the Iliad , he began to decorate and to adorn his villa at Twickenham . He converted an excavation , under under the road into his Garden , into a Grotto [ 15 ]
... his longest days and his longest nights . When he had finished the Iliad , he began to decorate and to adorn his villa at Twickenham . He converted an excavation , under under the road into his Garden , into a Grotto [ 15 ]
Strana 16
... Twickenham . He who wrote fo early in the Guardian on this fubject , and tranflated Homer's description of the garden of Alcinous fo delicioufly , 66 ( Four acres was th'allotted space of ground , " Fenc'd with a green enclosure all ...
... Twickenham . He who wrote fo early in the Guardian on this fubject , and tranflated Homer's description of the garden of Alcinous fo delicioufly , 66 ( Four acres was th'allotted space of ground , " Fenc'd with a green enclosure all ...
Strana 26
... Twickenham , in Lord Bo- lingbroke's coach and fix , which was over- turned in a piece of water . Horace escaped being crushed to death , by the fall of a tree , in his garden , and was near vifiting the fhades below , as he defcribes ...
... Twickenham , in Lord Bo- lingbroke's coach and fix , which was over- turned in a piece of water . Horace escaped being crushed to death , by the fall of a tree , in his garden , and was near vifiting the fhades below , as he defcribes ...
Strana 27
Thomas Tyers. 6 Twickenham . He there faw the moral fcenes of life paffing in review before his mind , as exactly as the beautiful objects on his river Thames , from his camera obfcura . He undoubtedly got a great deal of know- ledge by ...
Thomas Tyers. 6 Twickenham . He there faw the moral fcenes of life paffing in review before his mind , as exactly as the beautiful objects on his river Thames , from his camera obfcura . He undoubtedly got a great deal of know- ledge by ...
Strana 30
... Twickenham had the effect of the lettres de cachet of the tyrannical Tiberius , dated from Caprea , which ftruck an univerfal panic , and became pro- fcriptions of all whom he was afraid of , or were become afraid of him . But the fact ...
... Twickenham had the effect of the lettres de cachet of the tyrannical Tiberius , dated from Caprea , which ftruck an univerfal panic , and became pro- fcriptions of all whom he was afraid of , or were become afraid of him . But the fact ...
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Strana 18 - The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb, are managed with exquisite judgment ; and though Lord Peterborough assisted him " To form his quincunx, and to rank his vines...
Strana 65 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Strana 124 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 54 - Asiaticks, which are reposited in our publick libraries, were printed with the usual advantage of notes and illustrations, and if the languages of the Eastern nations were studied in our great seminaries of learning, where every other branch of useful knowledge is taught to perfection, a new and ample field would be opened for speculation; we should have a more extensive insight into the history of the human mind ; we should be furnished with a new set of images and similitudes; and a number of excellent...
Strana 90 - As to the future grandeur of America, and its being a rising empire under one head, whether republican or monarchical, it is one of the idlest and most visionary notions that ever was conceived even by writers of romance.
Strana 68 - England, and at present of all the world. I hope you are acquainted enough with the English tongue to be sensible of all the charms of his works. For my part I look...
Strana 98 - Tire little nightingale. His manners were ' delicate, eafy, and engaging : and he treated his friends with a politenefs that charmed, and a generofity that was much to his honour. Every gueft was made happy within his doors. Pleafure dwelt under his roof, and t Elegance Elegance prefided at his table.
Strana 42 - That man has a malignant and ungenerous heart ; and he is base enough to assume the mask of a moralist, in order to decry human nature, and to give a decent vent to his hatred of man and woman kind.
Strana 99 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
Strana 36 - I feem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a figh I wifh it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More fenfe, than I can do in fix, It gives me fuch a jealous fit, I cry, pox take him and his wit.