The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith]. |
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Bear me , fome God , to Baia's gentle seats , Or cover me in Umbria's green
retreats ; Where western gales eternally reside , And all the seasons lavish all
their pride : Blossoms , and fruits , and flowers together rise , And the whole year
in gay ...
Bear me , fome God , to Baia's gentle seats , Or cover me in Umbria's green
retreats ; Where western gales eternally reside , And all the seasons lavish all
their pride : Blossoms , and fruits , and flowers together rise , And the whole year
in gay ...
Էջ 160
He observes that throughout the whole visible world , an universal order and
gradation in the sensual and mental faculties may be seen , which caufes a
subordination of creature to creature , and of all creatures to man . He then treats
of the ...
He observes that throughout the whole visible world , an universal order and
gradation in the sensual and mental faculties may be seen , which caufes a
subordination of creature to creature , and of all creatures to man . He then treats
of the ...
Էջ 165
In his third epifle , he treats of the nature and state of man with respect to society ,
and confiders the whole uni . verse as one system thereof , in which nothing
fubfifts wholly for itself , nor yet wholly for another , but wherein the hap . piness of
...
In his third epifle , he treats of the nature and state of man with respect to society ,
and confiders the whole uni . verse as one system thereof , in which nothing
fubfifts wholly for itself , nor yet wholly for another , but wherein the hap . piness of
...
Էջ 170
The learned editor of the author's works informs us that this poem is only a part of
what the poet intended on the subject , and that the whole would have made four
books , of which this was to have been the first ; but the author's bad ftate of ...
The learned editor of the author's works informs us that this poem is only a part of
what the poet intended on the subject , and that the whole would have made four
books , of which this was to have been the first ; but the author's bad ftate of ...
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He then condemns those who judge by a part and not the whole of a
performance , as well as those who are critics only in Wit , Language , or
Verfification , and ridicules others who are too hard to please , or too apt to
admire . A perfect judge ...
He then condemns those who judge by a part and not the whole of a
performance , as well as those who are critics only in Wit , Language , or
Verfification , and ridicules others who are too hard to please , or too apt to
admire . A perfect judge ...
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