An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 8 páginas |
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... - preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHARACTERS of La Bruyere in 66 in PROSE ; and that it is a creative ii DEDICATION .
... - preffed with the utmost elegance and brevity , are MORALITY , and not POETRY ; that the EPISTLES of Boileau in RHYME , are no more poetical , than the CHARACTERS of La Bruyere in 66 in PROSE ; and that it is a creative ii DEDICATION .
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... elegant taste , and lively fancy in describing familiar life , though not the higher scenes of poetry . Here may be num- bered , BUTLER , SWIFT , ROCHESTER , DONNE , DORSET , OLDHAM . In the fourth class , the mere verfifiers , however ...
... elegant taste , and lively fancy in describing familiar life , though not the higher scenes of poetry . Here may be num- bered , BUTLER , SWIFT , ROCHESTER , DONNE , DORSET , OLDHAM . In the fourth class , the mere verfifiers , however ...
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... elegance , both which must suffer in a literal translation , " Would I could become a murmuring bee , fly into your grotto , and be B 4 permitted * THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i . 66 . † POPE , Past . ii . 23 . MILTON . permitted to creep ...
... elegance , both which must suffer in a literal translation , " Would I could become a murmuring bee , fly into your grotto , and be B 4 permitted * THEOCRITUS , Idyll . i . 66 . † POPE , Past . ii . 23 . MILTON . permitted to creep ...
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... elegance and energy : Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per stragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona solo ; prostratisque hostibus ultor Insultat ; ceu præla novo spumantia musto Exercens , salit attritas ...
... elegance and energy : Ille patris vires indutus et iram Dira rubens graditur , per stragem et fracta potentum Agmina , prona solo ; prostratisque hostibus ultor Insultat ; ceu præla novo spumantia musto Exercens , salit attritas ...
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... elegance and force ; and as Peru was parti- cularly famous for its long succession of Incas , and Mexico for many magnificent works of massy gold , there is great propriety in fixing the restoration of the grandeur of each to that ...
... elegance and force ; and as Peru was parti- cularly famous for its long succession of Incas , and Mexico for many magnificent works of massy gold , there is great propriety in fixing the restoration of the grandeur of each to that ...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Volumen1 Joseph Warton Vista completa - 1806 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abelard abounds Addison admirable Æneid ancient appear Ariosto bard beautiful Boccace Boileau Cant canto celebrated character Chaucer circumstances composition Corneille critic Dante Domenichino Dryden Eclogue elegant Eloisa epic epic poetry epistle equal Essay Euripides excellent expressed eyes Fame fancy French genius Georgics grace Greek hath heroes Homer honour Horace Iliad imagery images imagination imitated introduced Italian Jane Shore king language lately Latin learned lines lively lover manner mentioned merit Milton mind nature numbers o'er observed opinion Ovid painted Paradise Lost particularly passage passion pathetic perhaps Petrarch piece Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry POPE praise prince propriety quæ Quintilian Racine racter reader remarkable satire says scene sentiments solemn Sophocles speaks species Spenser spirit stanza story strokes sublime sylphs Tasso taste tender Theocritus thou thought tion tragedy translated verses Virgil Voltaire words writer written
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Página 145 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 224 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Página 134 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Página 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Página 315 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Página 390 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Página 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 130 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Página 148 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.