The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn . It is impossible for us , wha live in the latter ages of the world , to make observa → tions in criticism ...
... writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn . It is impossible for us , wha live in the latter ages of the world , to make observa → tions in criticism ...
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... write in a positive dogmatic way , without either lan- guage , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best of the Latin critics wrote , he may find their manner very beautifully described in the characters of Horace ...
... write in a positive dogmatic way , without either lan- guage , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best of the Latin critics wrote , he may find their manner very beautifully described in the characters of Horace ...
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... write this like a criminal , to warn people to enter upon what reformation they please to make in themselves in ... writing love - letters to the beauties that have been long since in their graves . This is to warm my heart with the ...
... write this like a criminal , to warn people to enter upon what reformation they please to make in themselves in ... writing love - letters to the beauties that have been long since in their graves . This is to warm my heart with the ...
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... write after such a manner , that nothing may be interpreted as aimed at private persons . For this reason , when I draw any faulty character , I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it , and take ...
... write after such a manner , that nothing may be interpreted as aimed at private persons . For this reason , when I draw any faulty character , I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it , and take ...
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" tishes nothing better than the ridicule which turns upon a writer of any eminence , so there is nothing which a man that has but a very ordinary talent in ri- dicule may execute with greater ease . One might raise laughter for a ...
" tishes nothing better than the ridicule which turns upon a writer of any eminence , so there is nothing which a man that has but a very ordinary talent in ri- dicule may execute with greater ease . One might raise laughter for a ...
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Էջ 360 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Էջ 8 - Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Էջ 364 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Էջ 364 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Էջ 255 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Էջ 164 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.
Էջ 255 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Էջ 293 - There went a fame in heaven, that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven.
Էջ 133 - ... chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns, who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets, both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
Էջ 291 - O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder; and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented torments.