An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 8 pages |
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... strokes of genuine poesy ; strokes as much superior to any thing Heathenism 1 can can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... strokes of genuine poesy ; strokes as much superior to any thing Heathenism 1 can can produce , as is Jehovah to Jupiter . This 10 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... strokes of such genuine and sublime poetry as the conclusion before us . It is one of the greatest and most pleasing arts of descriptive poetry , to introduce moral sentences and instructions in an oblique and indirect manner , in ...
... strokes of such genuine and sublime poetry as the conclusion before us . It is one of the greatest and most pleasing arts of descriptive poetry , to introduce moral sentences and instructions in an oblique and indirect manner , in ...
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... a Solemn Music , and on the Passion , in the same volume ; and a vacation exercise , page 9 , in all which are to be found many strokes of the sublime . + Page 28 . In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
... a Solemn Music , and on the Passion , in the same volume ; and a vacation exercise , page 9 , in all which are to be found many strokes of the sublime . + Page 28 . In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 37.
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... strokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language ; and which , as its beauties are not of a transitory kind , as depending on particular customs and manners , will ever be perused with ...
... strokes of nature in which it abounds , one of the most captivating and amusing in our language ; and which , as its beauties are not of a transitory kind , as depending on particular customs and manners , will ever be perused with ...
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... stroke of nature , in making these rude hearers imagine some god lay concealed in this first musician's instrument . * He might have enriched his piece by copying the fourth Pythian ode of Pindar . in his hand , and pointing to the ...
... stroke of nature , in making these rude hearers imagine some god lay concealed in this first musician's instrument . * He might have enriched his piece by copying the fourth Pythian ode of Pindar . in his hand , and pointing to the ...
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Page 12 - All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on Mine altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
Page 224 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Page 145 - 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 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 231 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine, (The victor cried) the glorious prize is mine ! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...
Page 315 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 148 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.
Page 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 390 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.