The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame , or to commend , A timorous foe , and ...
... praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame , or to commend , A timorous foe , and ...
Page 245
... praise is rigorously just . The dissyllable termination , which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama , is to be found , though , I think , not in Gorboduc35 which is con- fessedly before our authour ; yet in Hieronnymo , 36 of ...
... praise is rigorously just . The dissyllable termination , which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama , is to be found , though , I think , not in Gorboduc35 which is con- fessedly before our authour ; yet in Hieronnymo , 36 of ...
Page 258
... praise or blame . That The Messiah excels the Pollio5 is no great praise , if it be considered from what original the improvements are derived . 4. Pastorals , II , 136. 5. Virgil's Eclogue IV . 6. Book of Isaiah . The Verses on the ...
... praise or blame . That The Messiah excels the Pollio5 is no great praise , if it be considered from what original the improvements are derived . 4. Pastorals , II , 136. 5. Virgil's Eclogue IV . 6. Book of Isaiah . The Verses on the ...
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