The dunciad, in four booksJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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Page 57
... Goddess in the City , with her private Academy for Poets in particular ; the Governors of it , and the four Cardinal Virtues . Then the Poem haftes into the midst of things , presenting her on the evening of a Lord Mayor's day ...
... Goddess in the City , with her private Academy for Poets in particular ; the Governors of it , and the four Cardinal Virtues . Then the Poem haftes into the midst of things , presenting her on the evening of a Lord Mayor's day ...
Page 58
... Goddess , beholding the flame from her feat , flies and puts it out by cafting upon it the poem of Thule . She forthwith reveals herself to him , tranf- ports him to her Temple , unfolds her Arts , and initiates him into her Mysteries ...
... Goddess , beholding the flame from her feat , flies and puts it out by cafting upon it the poem of Thule . She forthwith reveals herself to him , tranf- ports him to her Temple , unfolds her Arts , and initiates him into her Mysteries ...
Page 59
... Goddess bade Britannia sleep , And pour'd her Spirit o'er the land and deep . In eldest time , ere mortals writ or read , Ere Pallas iffu'd from the Thund'rer's head , Dulness o'er all poffefs'd her ancient right , Daughter of Chaos and ...
... Goddess bade Britannia sleep , And pour'd her Spirit o'er the land and deep . In eldest time , ere mortals writ or read , Ere Pallas iffu'd from the Thund'rer's head , Dulness o'er all poffefs'd her ancient right , Daughter of Chaos and ...
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... Goddess then , o'er his anointed head , With mystic words , the facred Opium shed . And lo ! her bird ( a monster of a fowl , Something betwixt a Heideggre and Ow ! ) Perch'd on his crown . " All hail ! and hail again , My fon ! the ...
... Goddess then , o'er his anointed head , With mystic words , the facred Opium shed . And lo ! her bird ( a monster of a fowl , Something betwixt a Heideggre and Ow ! ) Perch'd on his crown . " All hail ! and hail again , My fon ! the ...
Page 81
... Goddess in person ( in like manner as the games Pythia , Ifthmia , etc. were anciently faid to be ordained by the Gods , and as Thetis herself appearing , according to Homer , Od . xxiv . proposed the prizes in honour of her son A ...
... Goddess in person ( in like manner as the games Pythia , Ifthmia , etc. were anciently faid to be ordained by the Gods , and as Thetis herself appearing , according to Homer , Od . xxiv . proposed the prizes in honour of her son A ...
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Page xxx - ... delivered. As for those which are the most known, and the most received, they are placed in so beautiful a light, and illustrated with such apt allusions, that they have in them all the graces of novelty, and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, still more convinced of their truth and solidity.
Page xxx - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 63 - How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land. Here gay Description...
Page 146 - Thou, only thou, directing all our way! To where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Pours at great Bourbon's feet her silken sons; Or Tyber, now no longer Roman, rolls Vain of...
Page 144 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Page 145 - Show all his paces, not a step advance. With the same cement, ever sure to bind, We bring to one dead level every mind : Then take him to develop, if you can, And hew the block off, and get out the man. But wherefore waste I words ? I see advance Whore, pupil, and lac'd governor from France."12 Walker ! our hat ' nor more he deign'd to say, But stern as Ajax
Page 144 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Page 60 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Page 147 - ... naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain. Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd ev'ry Vice on Christian ground...
Page 143 - Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman and Greek grammarians ! know your better Author of something yet more great than letter ; While towering o'er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'ertops them all.