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... whose business it is to affect the paffions . * " The antient painters and fculptors exhausted all their ideas of perfect beau- ty in their pictures and ftatues of Venus . They made her always appear with the * A Philofophical Enquiry ...
... whose business it is to affect the paffions . * " The antient painters and fculptors exhausted all their ideas of perfect beau- ty in their pictures and ftatues of Venus . They made her always appear with the * A Philofophical Enquiry ...
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... whose fortunes are ample enough to fupport excefs . In thofe claffes of the peo- ple whofe fortunes are not quite fo abun- dant , and who have feldom breathed the poisonous air of the capital , the true character of the nation will much ...
... whose fortunes are ample enough to fupport excefs . In thofe claffes of the peo- ple whofe fortunes are not quite fo abun- dant , and who have feldom breathed the poisonous air of the capital , the true character of the nation will much ...
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... Whose mercies , like heav'n's dew refreshing fall , In gen❜ral love and charity to all , Pleas'd we behold fuch worth on any throne , And doubly pleas'd we find it on our own . This compliment to the king is very genteel , without ...
... Whose mercies , like heav'n's dew refreshing fall , In gen❜ral love and charity to all , Pleas'd we behold fuch worth on any throne , And doubly pleas'd we find it on our own . This compliment to the king is very genteel , without ...
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... whose tender care , To ev'ry virtue would have form'd your youth , And ftrew'd with flow'rs the thorny ways of truth ? Oh ! lofs beyond repair ! Oh ! wretched father left alone , To weep their dire misfortune and thy own ! Nothing can ...
... whose tender care , To ev'ry virtue would have form'd your youth , And ftrew'd with flow'rs the thorny ways of truth ? Oh ! lofs beyond repair ! Oh ! wretched father left alone , To weep their dire misfortune and thy own ! Nothing can ...
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... Whose nobles born to cringe and to command , In courts a mean , in camps a gen'rous band ; From each low tool of pow'r content receive Those laws , their dreaded arms to Europe give . Whose people vain in want , in bondage bleft , Tho ...
... Whose nobles born to cringe and to command , In courts a mean , in camps a gen'rous band ; From each low tool of pow'r content receive Those laws , their dreaded arms to Europe give . Whose people vain in want , in bondage bleft , Tho ...
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Addiſon admirable Alcamenes Apelles becauſe bring certain taunts compofition criticifm itſelf criticiſms appeared critics is reaſonable critique elle-meme defcription deferves elegy employ themſelves fame fatirized favourite's reputa fays feeing the latent feems fentiments feveral fhaft of ridicule fhall fhould fince fome fore his criticiſms fpirit ftrokes fubject fuch proper objects genius greateſt haughty infolence hiftorian hiftory himſelf infolence of decifion injudicious and malevolent itfelf as lightly itſelf is abfurd Journal des Sçavans judgments are humour juft liger wrote modeſty moft Monody moſt muſt n'eft qu'un art nions number of thoſe paffage paffions Phidias philofophical pieces pleaſure in feeing plufieurs menfonges poem poet poetry been obliged praiſe prefent publiſhed racter raiſe his favourite's reafon reffemble le mieux ridicule of injudicious taunts and reflections thefe themſelves in pointing theſe thofe thoſe who bring Tibullus tion trifling critics ture extremely uſeful verfification Virgil Virgil's tomb world with diffidence Young here mentions
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Page 99 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th
Page 12 - ... not the generous efforts of a virtuous mind be rewarded? In a word, shall the corporeal world be all order and harmony, the intellectual discord and confusion ? He who is bigot enough to believe these things, must bid adieu to that natural rule, of
Page 113 - Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns...
Page 14 - Thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine ? They, like the sun, irradiate all between ; The body charms because the soul is seen. Hence, men are often captives of a face, They know not why, of no peculiar grace : Some forms, tho' bright, no mortal man can bear ; Some, none resist, tho
Page 38 - With that low cunning which in fools supplies, And amply too, the place of being wise, Which Nature, kind indulgent parent, gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave...
Page 113 - ... playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide...
Page 117 - A nation here I pity, and admire, Whom nobleft fentiments of glory fire, Yet taught by cuftom's force, and bigot fear, To ferve with pride, and boaft the yoke they bear : Whofe Nobles born to cringe, and to command, In courts a mean, in camps a gen'rous band ; From each low tool of pow'r content receive Thofe laws, their dreaded arms to Europe give. Whofe people vain in want, in bondage bleft, Tho...
Page 49 - Here let me bend, great Dryden, at thy shrine, Thou dearest name to all the tuneful nine. What if some dull lines in cold order creep, And with his theme the poet seems to sleep, Still, when his subject rises proud to view, With equal strength the Poet rises too. With strong invention, noblest vigour fraught, Thought still springs up and rises out of thought ; Numbers ennobling numbers in their...
Page 17 - There is not perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another...