Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... descriptions ; but here he managed very injudiciously ; for whilst he took care to paint all that appeared domestic , and in the house of his heroes , not having omitted even a button , or a garter , in the description of their habits ...
... descriptions ; but here he managed very injudiciously ; for whilst he took care to paint all that appeared domestic , and in the house of his heroes , not having omitted even a button , or a garter , in the description of their habits ...
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... descriptions , nor unity of de- sign . His poem is more savage than those nations that are the subject of it . Towards the end of the work , the au- thor is one of the first heroes of the poem . Notwithstanding these defects , the great ...
... descriptions , nor unity of de- sign . His poem is more savage than those nations that are the subject of it . Towards the end of the work , the au- thor is one of the first heroes of the poem . Notwithstanding these defects , the great ...
Page 89
... descriptions , which demand energy and dignity , one is asto- nished to fee how the natural foftness of the Italian language is changed on a fud- den to fublimity and force , and receives in his hands a new character : but notwith ...
... descriptions , which demand energy and dignity , one is asto- nished to fee how the natural foftness of the Italian language is changed on a fud- den to fublimity and force , and receives in his hands a new character : but notwith ...
Page 91
... descriptions are almost always loaded with " fuperfluous ornaments ; that when he is paint- " ing the fstronger paffions , and in the very midist " of the concern and trouble they have excited , he ** runs off into fallies of wit ...
... descriptions are almost always loaded with " fuperfluous ornaments ; that when he is paint- " ing the fstronger paffions , and in the very midist " of the concern and trouble they have excited , he ** runs off into fallies of wit ...
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... description of fallen greatness ; of di- minished and interrupted splendor ; of a fuperior nature funk and disgraced , but emerging at inter- vals from its degradation . This is a subject fo truly poetic , it gives rise to fuch a strain ...
... description of fallen greatness ; of di- minished and interrupted splendor ; of a fuperior nature funk and disgraced , but emerging at inter- vals from its degradation . This is a subject fo truly poetic , it gives rise to fuch a strain ...
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Page 173 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 117 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Page 172 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 184 - Thy banks ? — alas, is this the boafted fcene, This dreary, wide, uncultivated plain, Where fick'ning Nature wears a fainter green, And Defolation fpreads her torpid reign ? Is this the fcene where Freedom breath'd, Her copious horn where Plenty wreath'd. And health at opening day Bade all her rofeate breezes fly, To wake the fons of Induftry, And make their fields more gay?
Page 84 - Every one has something so singularly his own that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features than the poet has by their manners.
Page 116 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side...
Page 177 - Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?
Page 112 - Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood and them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where only what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would?
Page 174 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 152 - They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials of Nature's production, for elevating his fubject, and making it interefting.