Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Young. Dyer. Mallet. Shenstone. Akenside. Lyttelton. West. GrayJ. Nichols, 1781 |
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... PRINTED BY J. NICHOLS : FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W. STRAHAN , J.RIVING TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T.PAYNE , L. DAVIS , W. OWEN , B. WHITE , S. CROWDER , T. CASLON , T. LONGMAN , B. LAW , C. DILLY , J. DODSLEY , J. WILKIE , J. ROB ...
... PRINTED BY J. NICHOLS : FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W. STRAHAN , J.RIVING TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T.PAYNE , L. DAVIS , W. OWEN , B. WHITE , S. CROWDER , T. CASLON , T. LONGMAN , B. LAW , C. DILLY , J. DODSLEY , J. WILKIE , J. ROB ...
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... printed at Oxford ) is dated May the 19th , 1713. From the Exordium Young appears to have spent fome time on the compofition of it . While other bards with Britain's hero fet their fouls on fire , he draws , he says , a deeper fcene ...
... printed at Oxford ) is dated May the 19th , 1713. From the Exordium Young appears to have spent fome time on the compofition of it . While other bards with Britain's hero fet their fouls on fire , he draws , he says , a deeper fcene ...
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... printed in the Tatler . It was infcribed to the Queen , in a dedication , which , for fome reafon , he did not admit into his works . It tells her , that his only title to the great honour he now does himself is the obligation he ...
... printed in the Tatler . It was infcribed to the Queen , in a dedication , which , for fome reafon , he did not admit into his works . It tells her , that his only title to the great honour he now does himself is the obligation he ...
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... Curll : You feem , in the Col- lection you propofe , to have omitted 6614 to what I think may claim the first place in it ; I mean a Tranflation from Part 66 of Job , printed by Mr. Tonfon . " 186 0 34 YOUN . G. “ ...
... Curll : You feem , in the Col- lection you propofe , to have omitted 6614 to what I think may claim the first place in it ; I mean a Tranflation from Part 66 of Job , printed by Mr. Tonfon . " 186 0 34 YOUN . G. “ ...
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Samuel Johnson. 66 of Job , printed by Mr. Tonfon . " The Dedication , which was only fuffered to appear in Tonfon's edition , while it fpeaks of his prefent retirement , feems to make an unusual struggle to escape from retirement . It ...
Samuel Johnson. 66 of Job , printed by Mr. Tonfon . " The Dedication , which was only fuffered to appear in Tonfon's edition , while it fpeaks of his prefent retirement , feems to make an unusual struggle to escape from retirement . It ...
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Էջ 18 - Alas ! from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Էջ 17 - Tis his with mock passion to glow ! Tis his in smooth tales to unfold, How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs and die.
Էջ 19 - ... always to mean more than he said. Would you have any more reasons? An interval of above forty years has pretty well destroyed the charm. A dead lord ranks with commoners; vanity is no longer interested in the matter ; for a new road has become an old one.
Էջ 35 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Էջ 8 - The pleasure of Shenstone was all in his eye ; he valued what he valued merely for its looks; nothing raised his indignation more than to ask if there were any fishes in his water.
Էջ 26 - An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art: an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
Էջ 107 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Էջ 6 - Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Էջ 16 - I priz'd every hour that went by, Beyond all that had pleas'd me before; But now they are past, and I sigh; And I grieve that I priz'd them no more.
Էջ 30 - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty ; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected only as we believe ; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that " The Bard" promotes any truth, moral or political.