Letters Concerning Taste: To which are Added, Essays on Similar and Other Subjects ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 - 220 էջ |
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... Excellence of the last in Defcription . Obfervations on a Short Sketch of the Evening by HOMER . Part of an Ode to the Evening by Mr. COLLINS . His animating Group of Figures . b Το Letter To the Same . P. 49 . VIII . CONTENTS .
... Excellence of the last in Defcription . Obfervations on a Short Sketch of the Evening by HOMER . Part of an Ode to the Evening by Mr. COLLINS . His animating Group of Figures . b Το Letter To the Same . P. 49 . VIII . CONTENTS .
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... Excellence confifts in . TO EUPHEMIUS . P. 126 . XX . Amythological Genealogy of Taste . CONTEMPLATION was the Daugh- ter of JUPITER , ( who Sprung from his Brain , like PALLAS ) by whom APOLLO had a Son named EUDOXUS [ i . e . true ...
... Excellence confifts in . TO EUPHEMIUS . P. 126 . XX . Amythological Genealogy of Taste . CONTEMPLATION was the Daugh- ter of JUPITER , ( who Sprung from his Brain , like PALLAS ) by whom APOLLO had a Son named EUDOXUS [ i . e . true ...
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... Excellence to others , by proving that TRUTH and BEAU- TY are coincident , and that the warmest Admirers of thefe CELESTIAL TWINS , have confequently Souls more nearly allied to ætherial Spirits of a higher Order . The effect of a good ...
... Excellence to others , by proving that TRUTH and BEAU- TY are coincident , and that the warmest Admirers of thefe CELESTIAL TWINS , have confequently Souls more nearly allied to ætherial Spirits of a higher Order . The effect of a good ...
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... Excellence of the Arts , as for the primary Graces ; and feizes the Heart with Rapture long before the Senfes , and Reafon in Conjunction , can prove this Beauty by collating the Imita- tions with their Originals . If it should be asked ...
... Excellence of the Arts , as for the primary Graces ; and feizes the Heart with Rapture long before the Senfes , and Reafon in Conjunction , can prove this Beauty by collating the Imita- tions with their Originals . If it should be asked ...
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... Excellence in your APOLLO fleaing the unfortunate MAR- SYAS ; the Man , who is fubject to be dif- compofed by violent Paffions , will select out one of Vandervelt's Storms to amuse himself with ; and the Eyes of those who are ennobled ...
... Excellence in your APOLLO fleaing the unfortunate MAR- SYAS ; the Man , who is fubject to be dif- compofed by violent Paffions , will select out one of Vandervelt's Storms to amuse himself with ; and the Eyes of those who are ennobled ...
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Էջ 128 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Էջ 193 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Էջ 37 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Էջ 24 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful...
Էջ 126 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Էջ 38 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Էջ 51 - When first with fresh-born vigour he inhales The balmy breeze, and feels the blessed sun Warm at his bosom, from the springs of life Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain!
Էջ 14 - Were destin'd ; some within a finer mould She wrought, and temper'd with a purer flame. To these the Sire omnipotent unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of himself.
Էջ 24 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Էջ 17 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...