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Page xvii
... attempted ( like a late Author , deteftable as a Man , and despicable as a Writer ) to immolate thofe at the fhrine of Envy , whom he was unable to emulate in the career of Glory . VOL . I. b g b S AN ON THE A Y POETRY OF PREFACE . xvii.
... attempted ( like a late Author , deteftable as a Man , and despicable as a Writer ) to immolate thofe at the fhrine of Envy , whom he was unable to emulate in the career of Glory . VOL . I. b g b S AN ON THE A Y POETRY OF PREFACE . xvii.
Page xxiv
... thofe minds , in which the diftribution was primarily equal , education , habit , or fome early bias , is ready to break that perfect poife , which is neceffary to conftitute con- fummate excellence . FROM this account of the different ...
... thofe minds , in which the diftribution was primarily equal , education , habit , or fome early bias , is ready to break that perfect poife , which is neceffary to conftitute con- fummate excellence . FROM this account of the different ...
Page lv
... thofe poems which are ascribed to Orpheus . He flourished between the 60th and the 70th Olympiad . His pieces are the offspring of Genius and Indolence : his subjects are perfectly fuited to his character . The devices which he would ...
... thofe poems which are ascribed to Orpheus . He flourished between the 60th and the 70th Olympiad . His pieces are the offspring of Genius and Indolence : his subjects are perfectly fuited to his character . The devices which he would ...
Page lxii
... thofe marks of ra- pid and uncontrouled imagination , which we have found to characterise the works of the first Lyric Poets . THE witty and fatirical Archilochus , on whom Horace and Quintilian are profeffed panegyrifts , falls not ...
... thofe marks of ra- pid and uncontrouled imagination , which we have found to characterise the works of the first Lyric Poets . THE witty and fatirical Archilochus , on whom Horace and Quintilian are profeffed panegyrifts , falls not ...
Page lxx
... thofe of Orpheus , Mufeus , & c . is owing to the different characters of the ages in which they lived . We could not indeed have expected to meet with any thing very serious , at any period , from fo indolent and careless a writer as ...
... thofe of Orpheus , Mufeus , & c . is owing to the different characters of the ages in which they lived . We could not indeed have expected to meet with any thing very serious , at any period , from fo indolent and careless a writer as ...
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Page xxxix - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page xi - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page cxxiii - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page c - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 39 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 101 - Nurs'd on the downy lap of ease, Fall prostrate at His throne : Ye princes, rulers, all adore ; Praise Him, ye kings, who makes your power An image of His own. Ye fair, by nature form'd to move, O praise th...
Page 98 - Join, ye loud spheres, the vocal choir ; Thou dazzling orb of liquid fire, The mighty chorus aid : Soon as grey ev'ning gilds the plain, Thou, moon, protract the melting strain.
Page xxxiii - Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glorioufly ; the horfe and his rider hath he thrown into the fea.
Page xxxiv - And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as an heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Page cvi - But wrapt in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure : Know we what fortune yet remains behind ? Know we how long the present shall endure ? WIST.