A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1757 - 76 էջ |
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... Taffo fays of himself , and he applauds the fame thing in Petrarch , " Leffi già tutte l'opere di Platone , è mi " rimaffero molti femi nella mente della fua dottri- " na . " I take thefe words from Menage , who has much much more to ...
... Taffo fays of himself , and he applauds the fame thing in Petrarch , " Leffi già tutte l'opere di Platone , è mi " rimaffero molti femi nella mente della fua dottri- " na . " I take thefe words from Menage , who has much much more to ...
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... Taffo , Non fon ' io Da difprezzar , fe ben me fteffo vidi Nel liquido del mar , quando l'altr ' hieri Taceano i venti , et ei giacea fenz ' onda . But of all the mifappliers of this fine original fen- timent , commend me to that other ...
... Taffo , Non fon ' io Da difprezzar , fe ben me fteffo vidi Nel liquido del mar , quando l'altr ' hieri Taceano i venti , et ei giacea fenz ' onda . But of all the mifappliers of this fine original fen- timent , commend me to that other ...
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... Taffo had faid , Cofi a le belle lagrime le piume . Si bagna Amore , e gode al chiaro lume . On which short hint Spenser has rais'd the following luxuriant imagery , The blinded archer - boy , Like lark in show'r of rain , Sate bathing ...
... Taffo had faid , Cofi a le belle lagrime le piume . Si bagna Amore , e gode al chiaro lume . On which short hint Spenser has rais'd the following luxuriant imagery , The blinded archer - boy , Like lark in show'r of rain , Sate bathing ...
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... Taffo's picture , is , " Night's bringing in Silence under her wings . " So new and fingular an idea as this had detected an Imitation . Milton contents himself , then , with faying fimply , Silence accompany'd . However to make amends ...
... Taffo's picture , is , " Night's bringing in Silence under her wings . " So new and fingular an idea as this had detected an Imitation . Milton contents himself , then , with faying fimply , Silence accompany'd . However to make amends ...
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... Taffo . B.iv. S.70 . There public care and private paffion fought A doubtful combat in his noble thought . Poems p . 14 . Public care is the periphrafis of honour , and private paffion , of love . For the reft you fee— disječi mem- bra ...
... Taffo . B.iv. S.70 . There public care and private paffion fought A doubtful combat in his noble thought . Poems p . 14 . Public care is the periphrafis of honour , and private paffion , of love . For the reft you fee— disječi mem- bra ...
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Էջ 30 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Էջ 43 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Էջ 7 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Էջ 57 - Oh, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods! Oh, 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death...
Էջ 43 - Bear me, some god ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense ; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursued th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it, and form'da dream.
Էջ 55 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Էջ 17 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Էջ 23 - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Էջ 20 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Էջ 33 - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape. Could he, whofe rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Defcribe or fix one movement of his Mind ? Who faw its fires here rife, and there...