An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. PopeT. Cadell, 1782 - 95 strán (strany) |
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... knowledge in architecture , as Ruffhead informs us . The admirable Hogarth , as appears by an entertaining pamphlet juft put out by Mr. Nichols the printer , took the liberty to ex- pofe our Poet for this affectation of knowledge , in a ...
... knowledge in architecture , as Ruffhead informs us . The admirable Hogarth , as appears by an entertaining pamphlet juft put out by Mr. Nichols the printer , took the liberty to ex- pofe our Poet for this affectation of knowledge , in a ...
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... knowledge from books , and not too much . " If I had read as many volumes as you have done , faid old Hobbes to a notorious book- worm , I fhould have been as ignorant as you are . " " You must have read , faid a great Perfonage in his ...
... knowledge from books , and not too much . " If I had read as many volumes as you have done , faid old Hobbes to a notorious book- worm , I fhould have been as ignorant as you are . " " You must have read , faid a great Perfonage in his ...
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... knowledge of laying out pleasure - grounds , and that the latter , by his practice and his , poetry , has rooted out the taste for Italian and French frippery and High and Low Dutch grotesque . ! A Was Horace happier ( merrier he ...
... knowledge of laying out pleasure - grounds , and that the latter , by his practice and his , poetry , has rooted out the taste for Italian and French frippery and High and Low Dutch grotesque . ! A Was Horace happier ( merrier he ...
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... knowledge , and his best inquiries , which included more than an hundred years , was able to give fome account , induced him to conclude , that the wrong house was pitched upon for the birth - place of our great dramatic poet . Should ...
... knowledge , and his best inquiries , which included more than an hundred years , was able to give fome account , induced him to conclude , that the wrong house was pitched upon for the birth - place of our great dramatic poet . Should ...
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... knowledge is taught to perfection , a new and ample field would be opened for fpeculation ; we should have a more extenfive infight into the hif tory of the human mind ; we should be furnished with a new fet of images and fimilitudes ...
... knowledge is taught to perfection , a new and ample field would be opened for fpeculation ; we should have a more extenfive infight into the hif tory of the human mind ; we should be furnished with a new fet of images and fimilitudes ...
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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.