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Pagina iv
In his twenty - fecond year he first shewed his power of English poetry , by fome verfes addreffed to Dryden ; and foon after published a transla tion of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon Bees ; after which , fays Dryden ...
In his twenty - fecond year he first shewed his power of English poetry , by fome verfes addreffed to Dryden ; and foon after published a transla tion of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon Bees ; after which , fays Dryden ...
Pagina 48
There are inftances of perfons who have been terrified , even to diftra & tion , at the figure of a tree or the fhaking of a bullruth . The truth of it is , I look upon a found imagination as the greateft blefling of life ; next to a ...
There are inftances of perfons who have been terrified , even to diftra & tion , at the figure of a tree or the fhaking of a bullruth . The truth of it is , I look upon a found imagination as the greateft blefling of life ; next to a ...
Pagina 149
... but when you fee it reign in characters of worth and distinction , it is what you cannot but lament , not without fome indigna , tion . It creeps into the heart of the wife man as well as that of the coxcomb .
... but when you fee it reign in characters of worth and distinction , it is what you cannot but lament , not without fome indigna , tion . It creeps into the heart of the wife man as well as that of the coxcomb .
Pagina 151
I who understands raillery , but muft refolve to fin no more ; nay , you may behold him fometimes in prayer for a proper delivery of the great truths he is to utter , humble himself with fo very well - turned phrafe , and mer.tion his ...
I who understands raillery , but muft refolve to fin no more ; nay , you may behold him fometimes in prayer for a proper delivery of the great truths he is to utter , humble himself with fo very well - turned phrafe , and mer.tion his ...
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