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... Virgil continued through life his favourite Latin poet ; and at twelve he had composed a play founded on the Iliad . At Twyford he had prepared himself for this effort by the study of Ogilby's Homer , followed by that of Sandys ' Ovid ...
... Virgil continued through life his favourite Latin poet ; and at twelve he had composed a play founded on the Iliad . At Twyford he had prepared himself for this effort by the study of Ogilby's Homer , followed by that of Sandys ' Ovid ...
Page xix
... Virgil , Ovid and Claudian and Statius - was left uncompleted and ultimately perished in the flames , to which this juvenile magnum opus seems to have been sentenced by the author himself , and not , as has been stated , by Bishop ...
... Virgil , Ovid and Claudian and Statius - was left uncompleted and ultimately perished in the flames , to which this juvenile magnum opus seems to have been sentenced by the author himself , and not , as has been stated , by Bishop ...
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... Virgil , ( the only undisputed authors of Pastoral ) that the Criticks have drawn the foregoing notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in Nature and simplicity . The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral ; but he is ...
... Virgil , ( the only undisputed authors of Pastoral ) that the Criticks have drawn the foregoing notions concerning it . Theocritus excels all others in Nature and simplicity . The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral ; but he is ...
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... Virgil ' . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in some few points . His Eclogues are somewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He is sometimes too allegorical , and treats of matters of religion in a pastoral style ...
... Virgil ' . Not but that he may be thought imperfect in some few points . His Eclogues are somewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients . He is sometimes too allegorical , and treats of matters of religion in a pastoral style ...
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... Virgil , calls the best critic of his age ) . " The au- thor ( says he ) seems to have a particular genius for this kind of poetry , and a judgment that much exceeds his years . He has taken very freely from the ancients . But what he ...
... Virgil , calls the best critic of his age ) . " The au- thor ( says he ) seems to have a particular genius for this kind of poetry , and a judgment that much exceeds his years . He has taken very freely from the ancients . But what he ...
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Page 40 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 274 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as...
Page 74 - The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round ; On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver Lamp ; the fiery Spirits blaze. From silver Spouts the grateful Liquors glide, While China's Earth receives the smoking Tide.
Page 49 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 68 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 52 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 65 - Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t
Page 78 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box...
Page 277 - Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 275 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.