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... composition was produced at the age of twenty ? It would be well for modern Critics to attend to the rules of this Essay ! « If Wit so much from ignorance undergo Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old , those met rewards ...
... composition was produced at the age of twenty ? It would be well for modern Critics to attend to the rules of this Essay ! « If Wit so much from ignorance undergo Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old , those met rewards ...
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... compositions are unconquerably dull . No one now reads Gilbert West , though praised by Gray , ( who was almost always niggardly in his encomiums ) , with a warmth that seems quite unaccountable . His Translation of Pindar entitles him ...
... compositions are unconquerably dull . No one now reads Gilbert West , though praised by Gray , ( who was almost always niggardly in his encomiums ) , with a warmth that seems quite unaccountable . His Translation of Pindar entitles him ...
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... composition of so much viva- city , such pure and unfailing humour , such elegant scholarship , so happily colloquial , so adapted to universal popularity , so fitted at once for the polite , the educated , and the common reader ...
... composition of so much viva- city , such pure and unfailing humour , such elegant scholarship , so happily colloquial , so adapted to universal popularity , so fitted at once for the polite , the educated , and the common reader ...
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... composition . I infer this from the character that more or less pervades all the other writings of Brathwait , with which I have had an opportunity of obtaining any acquaintance . In all of them is quaintness , pedantry , and a strong ...
... composition . I infer this from the character that more or less pervades all the other writings of Brathwait , with which I have had an opportunity of obtaining any acquaintance . In all of them is quaintness , pedantry , and a strong ...
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... composition , are the things which often turn genius out of its path . A critic loves technical rules , because it requires neither taste , nor talent , to comprehend and apply them . He thinks things excellent just in proportion as ...
... composition , are the things which often turn genius out of its path . A critic loves technical rules , because it requires neither taste , nor talent , to comprehend and apply them . He thinks things excellent just in proportion as ...
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Page 103 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 74 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 105 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 104 - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed' For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 105 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...
Page 45 - Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Page 114 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Page 39 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 106 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those hills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies: Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Page 116 - Fictitious bonds, the bonds of wealth and law, Still gather strength, and force unwilling awe. Hence all obedience bows to these alone, And talent sinks, and merit weeps unknown...