The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Zväzok 2A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley, 1723 - 360 strán (strany) |
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Strana xxiii
... Satire oftentimes proceeds not fo much from Wit as from Choler ; and human Frail- ty muft be nicely unfolded , to diftinguish a Satirift from a Scold . Rapin remarks , that the principal end of Satire , is to inftruct the People by ...
... Satire oftentimes proceeds not fo much from Wit as from Choler ; and human Frail- ty muft be nicely unfolded , to diftinguish a Satirift from a Scold . Rapin remarks , that the principal end of Satire , is to inftruct the People by ...
Strana 10
... Satire upon Wit . Folio , 1700. This Piece made a great noife , and rouz'd the spleen of the Modern Writers . V. A Hymn to the Light of the World , with the CARTONS of RAPHAEL URGIN . Fol . Printed in the Year 1703 . VI . ELIZA . An ...
... Satire upon Wit . Folio , 1700. This Piece made a great noife , and rouz'd the spleen of the Modern Writers . V. A Hymn to the Light of the World , with the CARTONS of RAPHAEL URGIN . Fol . Printed in the Year 1703 . VI . ELIZA . An ...
Strana 11
... Satire , written in the late Reign . 2. The Story of Don CARLOS Prince of Spain . 3. An Ode to the Creator . 4. A Hymn to the Sacred Spirit . 5. On Repentance . 6 . On Retirement , & c . Sir Richard has now by him in Manufcript , ready ...
... Satire , written in the late Reign . 2. The Story of Don CARLOS Prince of Spain . 3. An Ode to the Creator . 4. A Hymn to the Sacred Spirit . 5. On Repentance . 6 . On Retirement , & c . Sir Richard has now by him in Manufcript , ready ...
Strana 16
... Satire , with an agreeable mixture of Wit and Learning ; but he has not always the greatest Delicacy . The most confiderable of his Poems are . I. The BEAUTIES . TO ARMIDA . II . A Satire against Woman . To a Lady who let a fine ...
... Satire , with an agreeable mixture of Wit and Learning ; but he has not always the greatest Delicacy . The most confiderable of his Poems are . I. The BEAUTIES . TO ARMIDA . II . A Satire against Woman . To a Lady who let a fine ...
Strana 17
... Satire upon the French King , on the Peace of Refwick . Being committed to Prifon for this Piece , he wrote a famous Petition to the Lords of the Council , which procured his Enlargement . V.A Satire upon an Ignorant Quack . VI . The ...
... Satire upon the French King , on the Peace of Refwick . Being committed to Prifon for this Piece , he wrote a famous Petition to the Lords of the Council , which procured his Enlargement . V.A Satire upon an Ignorant Quack . VI . The ...
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Strana 198 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Strana 104 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Strana 255 - To his friends' pity, and pursuers' scorn, With shame remembers while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, The scenes of his past triumphs and his loves.
Strana 147 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Strana 196 - Sidney rais'd his Gratuity to Two Hundred Pounds, and commanded the Steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further, he might be tempted to give away his whole Estate.
Strana 144 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Strana 257 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants.
Strana 105 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Strana 174 - His behaviour was easy and courteous to all ; but distinguished and adapted to each man in particular, according to his station and quality. His civility was free from the formality of rule, and flowed immediately from his good sense.
Strana 276 - He kept up his good" humour to the laft ; and took leave of " his wife and friends, immediately before " his laft agony, with the fame tranquillity " of mind, and the fame indifference for " life, as though he had been upon taking " but a fhort journey. He was twice mar" ried, firft to a daughter of Mr.