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... fome to fetch . I have formerly read , without much reflection , of the multi- tude of Scotchmen that travelled with their wares in Poland ; and that their numbers were not fmall , the fuccefs of this negotiation gives fufficient evi ...
... fome to fetch . I have formerly read , without much reflection , of the multi- tude of Scotchmen that travelled with their wares in Poland ; and that their numbers were not fmall , the fuccefs of this negotiation gives fufficient evi ...
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... fome atten- tion to money ; for Wood fays , that he got by his place feven thousand pounds . After the Reftoration he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and per- haps fome of his other pieces : and as he appears , whenever any ...
... fome atten- tion to money ; for Wood fays , that he got by his place feven thousand pounds . After the Reftoration he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and per- haps fome of his other pieces : and as he appears , whenever any ...
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... fubject is fome parti- cular landfchape , to be poetically de- fcribed , with the addition of fuch em- bellishments as may be fupplied by hifto- hiftorical retrospection , or incidental me- ditation . To trace 16 DEN HA M.
... fubject is fome parti- cular landfchape , to be poetically de- fcribed , with the addition of fuch em- bellishments as may be fupplied by hifto- hiftorical retrospection , or incidental me- ditation . To trace 16 DEN HA M.
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... fome hour propitious to poetry . 1 He appears to have been one of the firft that understood the neceffity of emancipating translation from the drud- gery of counting lines and interpreting fingle words . How much this servile practice ...
... fome hour propitious to poetry . 1 He appears to have been one of the firft that understood the neceffity of emancipating translation from the drud- gery of counting lines and interpreting fingle words . How much this servile practice ...
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... And none was more a looker - on ❝ than he ; " So did he move our paffions , fome 66 were known " To wifh , for the defence , the crime " their own . " Now C 4 " Now private pity ftrove with pub- " lick hate DEN HA M. 23.
... And none was more a looker - on ❝ than he ; " So did he move our paffions , fome 66 were known " To wifh , for the defence , the crime " their own . " Now C 4 " Now private pity ftrove with pub- " lick hate DEN HA M. 23.
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Página 14 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 52 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered, and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am...
Página 24 - Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind ; it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images.
Página 52 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Página 18 - The lines are in themselves not perfect, for most of the words thus artfully opposed are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations by material images, into that language they cannot be translated.
Página 5 - I never heard of the man in my life, yet I find your name as a subscriber. He is too grave a poet for me; and I think among the Mediocrists, in prose as well as verse.
Página 24 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Página 11 - Having been compelled by his necessities to contract debts, and hunted, as is supposed, by the terriers of the law, he retired to a publick house on Tower-hill, where he is said to have died of want ; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffeehouse, asked him for a shilling.
Página 14 - That fervile path thou nobly doft decline, "• Of tracing word by word, and line by line. " Thofe are the labour'd births of...