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... passion ; he is attracted by rarity , seduced by example , and inflamed by competition . While the stores of pride and happiness are sur- veyed , one looks with longing eyes and gloomy coun- tenance on that which he despairs to gain ...
... passion ; he is attracted by rarity , seduced by example , and inflamed by competition . While the stores of pride and happiness are sur- veyed , one looks with longing eyes and gloomy coun- tenance on that which he despairs to gain ...
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... passion in excess will not become vicious ? All indifferent qualities and practices are bad , if they are compared with those which are good , and good if they are opposed to those that are bad . The pride or the pleasure of making ...
... passion in excess will not become vicious ? All indifferent qualities and practices are bad , if they are compared with those which are good , and good if they are opposed to those that are bad . The pride or the pleasure of making ...
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... passion . He that lays out his labours upon tem- porary subjects , easily finds readers , and quickly loses them ; for what should make the book valued when its subject is no more ? These observations will shew the reason why the poem ...
... passion . He that lays out his labours upon tem- porary subjects , easily finds readers , and quickly loses them ; for what should make the book valued when its subject is no more ? These observations will shew the reason why the poem ...
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... passions , and fills the mind with a wild confusion of mirth and melancholy . The versification of Rowe he thought too melodious for the stage , and too little varied in different passions . He made it the great fault of Congreve , that ...
... passions , and fills the mind with a wild confusion of mirth and melancholy . The versification of Rowe he thought too melodious for the stage , and too little varied in different passions . He made it the great fault of Congreve , that ...
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... passions shall cease , and love and hatred give way to curiosity . But many leave the labour of half their life to their executors and to chance , because they will not send them abroad unfinished ; and are unable to finish them ...
... passions shall cease , and love and hatred give way to curiosity . But many leave the labour of half their life to their executors and to chance , because they will not send them abroad unfinished ; and are unable to finish them ...
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Page 184 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 82 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.
Page 98 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Page 183 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear ; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Page 89 - It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed ; but it must be considered, that, if the excellency of a painter consisted only in this kind of imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best...
Page 186 - On Mrs. Corbet, who died of a Cancer in her Breast. ' Here rests a woman, good without pretence, Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense ; No conquest she, but o'er herself desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that Virtue only is our own.
Page 187 - Pensive hast follow'd to the silent tomb, Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore, Not parted long, and now to part no more ! Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
Page 106 - NOVEMBER 24, 1759. .BIOGRAPHY is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life.
Page 191 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...
Page 92 - That every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced, and almost universally confessed; but let us not attend only to mournful truths; if we look impartially about us, we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures and its joys.