Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Том 2C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 |
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Сторінка 89
... satire on the follies and frailties of the female sex , which this poem so abundantly con- tains , is wrought up with singular dexterity and humour ; but occasionally with a tincture of ma- lignancy and spleen which detracts in some mea ...
... satire on the follies and frailties of the female sex , which this poem so abundantly con- tains , is wrought up with singular dexterity and humour ; but occasionally with a tincture of ma- lignancy and spleen which detracts in some mea ...
Сторінка 98
... satire is unjustly severe ; the imagery frequently gross and indecent , and it possesses little ten- dency either to please the fancy or to move the * In the comic epopee , the fable of Fielding's Tom Jones holds the same rank , which ...
... satire is unjustly severe ; the imagery frequently gross and indecent , and it possesses little ten- dency either to please the fancy or to move the * In the comic epopee , the fable of Fielding's Tom Jones holds the same rank , which ...
Сторінка 101
... satire is almost redeemed by the charming picture he has drawn ( one would hope from the life ) of that perfection of good temper in a woman , which is certainly the prime quality for enjoying and imparting happiness : Oh ! blest with ...
... satire is almost redeemed by the charming picture he has drawn ( one would hope from the life ) of that perfection of good temper in a woman , which is certainly the prime quality for enjoying and imparting happiness : Oh ! blest with ...
Сторінка 102
... Satire of the Second Book of Horace , imitated in a Dialogue between Alexander Pope of Twickenham in Comm . Midd . Esq . on the one part , and his learned Counsel on the other . This was followed in the year 1736 , by the second satire ...
... Satire of the Second Book of Horace , imitated in a Dialogue between Alexander Pope of Twickenham in Comm . Midd . Esq . on the one part , and his learned Counsel on the other . This was followed in the year 1736 , by the second satire ...
Сторінка 103
... satire be often too severe , and too much tinged with party rancour , or private spleen , the allusions are so apt , and the parallel passages so happy , that every reader must feel gratified in comparing the two poets , and in re ...
... satire be often too severe , and too much tinged with party rancour , or private spleen , the allusions are so apt , and the parallel passages so happy , that every reader must feel gratified in comparing the two poets , and in re ...
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Сторінка 67 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Сторінка 66 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Сторінка 88 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Сторінка 381 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Сторінка 88 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Сторінка 104 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Сторінка 297 - That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
Сторінка 227 - O'er which were shadowy cast elysian gleams, That played, in waving lights, from place to place ; And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
Сторінка 342 - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
Сторінка 381 - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.