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... delivered . As for those which are the most known , and are most received , they are placed in so beau- tiful a light , and illustrated with such apt allusions , that they have in them all the graces of novelty 14 THE SPECTATOR .
... delivered . As for those which are the most known , and are most received , they are placed in so beau- tiful a light , and illustrated with such apt allusions , that they have in them all the graces of novelty 14 THE SPECTATOR .
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... lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but very few precepts in it , which he may not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Au- gustan age . His way of expressing ...
... lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but very few precepts in it , which he may not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Au- gustan age . His way of expressing ...
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... light . There are many who find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill - natur- ed discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud ...
... light . There are many who find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill - natur- ed discoveries with a secret pride , and applaud ...
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... light your fire at both ends , the middle will " shift for itself . " 66 I am engaged in this speculation by a sight which I lately met with at the opera . As I was standing in the hinder part of the box , I took notice of a lit- tle ...
... light your fire at both ends , the middle will " shift for itself . " 66 I am engaged in this speculation by a sight which I lately met with at the opera . As I was standing in the hinder part of the box , I took notice of a lit- tle ...
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... light of the sun . This , says he , your Ovid himself has hinted , where he treats of these matters , when he tells us that the blue - water nymphs are dressed in sky - coloured garments ; and that Aurora , who always appears in the light ...
... light of the sun . This , says he , your Ovid himself has hinted , where he treats of these matters , when he tells us that the blue - water nymphs are dressed in sky - coloured garments ; and that Aurora , who always appears in the light ...
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Page 16 - 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. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 244 - 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...
Page 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Page 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.