Poems and Plays, Volume 3T. Cadell, 1785 |
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Æneid affertion againſt allegory Bard baſe battle of Actium beauty bleft breaſt caduceus charms Claffic compofition conjecture controul courſe Critic Criticiſm diſplay E'en Effay Epic EPIC POETRY EPISTLE fable facred faid fame Fancy Fancy's feel fhades fhall fimple fink fire firft firſt fome fond fong foul ftill fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fwell glory Grecian heart herſelf himſelf Homer honour Iliad inſpire juft juſt Lucan lyre mind moft moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt nobleft NOTE o'er obſerve paffage Paffion pleafing pleaſing pleaſure Poefy poem Poet Poet's poetic Poetry powers praiſe preſent pride purpoſe purſue Reaſon rehearſe rhyme rifing Romulus and Remus ſcene ſeems ſenſe ſeverity ſhall ſhe ſhould ſkill ſmile Song ſpirit Statius ſtill ſtrain ſtrike ſtrong ſuch ſuppoſed ſway ſweet Tacitus thee thefe themſelves theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thro thy Genius treaſure uſe Verfe Verſe Virgil whofe whoſe zeal
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Pagina 191 - Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas, et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam propter aquam, tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius et tenera praetexit harundine ripas.
Pagina 137 - Milton was the emulator of both. He found Homer possessed of the province of MORALITY; Virgil of POLITICS; and nothing left for him, but that of RELIGION.
Pagina 170 - ... that influence them. Whether or no, the natural powers be not confined and debilitated by that timidity and caution which is occasioned by a rigid regard to the dictates of art ? or whether that philosophical, that geometrical, and systematical spirit so much in vogue, which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment...
Pagina 65 - Tho' fiercest tribes her galling fetters drag Proud Spain must strike to Lusitania's flag, Whose ampler folds, in conscious triumph spread, Wave o'er her NAVAL POET'S laureate head. Ye Nymphs of Tagus, from your golden cell, That caught the echo of his tuneful shell, Rise, and to deck your darling's...
Pagina 170 - ... that philosophical, that geometrical, and systematical spirit so much in vogue, which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart...
Pagina 165 - I was forced to censure those whom I admired, and could not but reflect, while I was dispossessing their emendations, how soon the same fate might happen to my own, and how many of the readings which I have corrected may be by some other editor defended and established. Criticks I saw, that others...
Pagina 52 - English Lyre To reach the Gothic Harp's terrific fire: The North's wild spectres own his potent hand, And Hell's nine portals at his voice expand; With new existence by his Verse endued, See Gothic Fable wakes her shadowy brood, Which, in the Runic rhymes of many a Scald, With...
Pagina 163 - ... did not care to protest against the authoritative manner in which you proceeded, or to question your investiture in the high office of Inquisitor General and Supreme Judge of the Opinions of the Learned, which you had long...
Pagina 155 - That every ftep and every inftant may lead us to the grave, is a melancholy truth. The Myfteries were only open at ftated times, a few days at moft in the courfe of a year.
Pagina 185 - Her glory seems to have been fully established by the public memorial of her picture exhibited in her native city, and adorned with a symbol of her victory. Pausanias, who saw it, supposes her to have been one of the handsomest women of her age.