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Page 90
... Addison , speaking of an Ita- lian opera , the fubject whereof had been borrowed of Taffo , " 1 muft entirely . agree with Monfieur Boileau , that one verfe in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinfel of Taflo * . " It is true , not ...
... Addison , speaking of an Ita- lian opera , the fubject whereof had been borrowed of Taffo , " 1 muft entirely . agree with Monfieur Boileau , that one verfe in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinfel of Taflo * . " It is true , not ...
Page 107
... Addison . That critic , like Scaliger , was prejudiced in favour of his author ; and feldom cares to point out the defects in the Paradise Loft . A particular cri- ticifm on the beauties of that perform- ance would now be tedious , as ...
... Addison . That critic , like Scaliger , was prejudiced in favour of his author ; and feldom cares to point out the defects in the Paradise Loft . A particular cri- ticifm on the beauties of that perform- ance would now be tedious , as ...
Page 108
... Addison has either paffed over in filence , or palliated . Some of these I fhall take the liberty to quote , not with defign to attack the me- mory of the greatest poetical genius our nation ever produced ( that task I leave to the ...
... Addison has either paffed over in filence , or palliated . Some of these I fhall take the liberty to quote , not with defign to attack the me- mory of the greatest poetical genius our nation ever produced ( that task I leave to the ...
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meet with in Homer . Another defect taken no notice of by Mr. Addison , is the want of a hero ; for Dryden was certain- ly mistaken , when he said the devil was Milton's hero * . Nor can the Meffiah be * Preface to ... Addison, is the ...
meet with in Homer . Another defect taken no notice of by Mr. Addison , is the want of a hero ; for Dryden was certain- ly mistaken , when he said the devil was Milton's hero * . Nor can the Meffiah be * Preface to ... Addison, is the ...
Page 112
... principal character , and which are thereby loft for want of fup- porting each other . + Traité du Poeme Epique , p . 101 . In regard to fentiment and language , Mr. Addison , In ( 112 ) race, qui ordonne que tout foit réduit ...
... principal character , and which are thereby loft for want of fup- porting each other . + Traité du Poeme Epique , p . 101 . In regard to fentiment and language , Mr. Addison , In ( 112 ) race, qui ordonne que tout foit réduit ...
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Page 173 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 117 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Page 172 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 184 - Thy banks ? — alas, is this the boafted fcene, This dreary, wide, uncultivated plain, Where fick'ning Nature wears a fainter green, And Defolation fpreads her torpid reign ? Is this the fcene where Freedom breath'd, Her copious horn where Plenty wreath'd. And health at opening day Bade all her rofeate breezes fly, To wake the fons of Induftry, And make their fields more gay?
Page 84 - Every one has something so singularly his own that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features than the poet has by their manners.
Page 116 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side...
Page 177 - Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?
Page 112 - Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood and them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where only what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would?
Page 174 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 152 - They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials of Nature's production, for elevating his fubject, and making it interefting.