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... opinion , that it throws his Mistress infinitely below his Pindarics , and his latter compositions , which are undoubtedly the best of his poems , and the most correct . For my own part , I must avow it freely to the world , that I ne ...
... opinion , that it throws his Mistress infinitely below his Pindarics , and his latter compositions , which are undoubtedly the best of his poems , and the most correct . For my own part , I must avow it freely to the world , that I ne ...
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... opinion , obsolete words may then be laudably revived , when either they are more sounding , or more significant ... opinions of Hurd , Beattie , and De Nores , upon this disputed passage . cases a moderation is to be observed in the use ...
... opinion , obsolete words may then be laudably revived , when either they are more sounding , or more significant ... opinions of Hurd , Beattie , and De Nores , upon this disputed passage . cases a moderation is to be observed in the use ...
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... opinion is this ; that Casaubon , finding little light from antiquity of these beginnings of poetry amongst the Grecians , but only these repre- sentations of Satyrs , who carried canisters and cor- nucopias full of several fruits in ...
... opinion is this ; that Casaubon , finding little light from antiquity of these beginnings of poetry amongst the Grecians , but only these repre- sentations of Satyrs , who carried canisters and cor- nucopias full of several fruits in ...
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... opinion ; but rather judge in general , that since all poetry had its original from religion , that of the Grecians and Rome had the same beginning . Both were invented at festivals of thanksgiving , and both were prosecuted with mirth ...
... opinion ; but rather judge in general , that since all poetry had its original from religion , that of the Grecians and Rome had the same beginning . Both were invented at festivals of thanksgiving , and both were prosecuted with mirth ...
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... opinion , it becomes me to be silent , and to submit to better judgments than my own . But , to return to the Grecians , from whose sati- ric dramas the elder Scaliger and Heinsius will have the Roman satire to proceed , I am to take 42 ...
... opinion , it becomes me to be silent , and to submit to better judgments than my own . But , to return to the Grecians , from whose sati- ric dramas the elder Scaliger and Heinsius will have the Roman satire to proceed , I am to take 42 ...
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Page 26 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Page 178 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Page 26 - And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Page 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Page 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Page 102 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Page 95 - ... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.
Page 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Page 386 - The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finished course : Saturnian times Roll round again ; and mighty years, begun From their first orb, in radiant circles run. The base degenerate iron offspring ends : A golden progeny from heaven descends.