Juvenile poemsA. Millar, 1757 |
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Page 73
... last conclude in praife of Mufic , and the advantages of the facred above the prophane . VER . 7. Let the loud trumpet found , etc ] Our Author , in his rules for good writing had faid , that the found fhould be an echo to the fenfe ...
... last conclude in praife of Mufic , and the advantages of the facred above the prophane . VER . 7. Let the loud trumpet found , etc ] Our Author , in his rules for good writing had faid , that the found fhould be an echo to the fenfe ...
Page 92
... last and most perfect fruits of “ much ftudy and experience . ” Η ΓΑΡ ΤΩΝ ΛΟΓΩΝ ΚΡΙΣΙΣ ΠΟΛΛΗΣ ΕΣΤΙ ΠΕΙΡΑΣ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΝ- NHMA . VER . 19. Yet if we look , etc. ] But the Author having NOTES . VER . 15. Let fuch teach others ] " Qui ...
... last and most perfect fruits of “ much ftudy and experience . ” Η ΓΑΡ ΤΩΝ ΛΟΓΩΝ ΚΡΙΣΙΣ ΠΟΛΛΗΣ ΕΣΤΙ ΠΕΙΡΑΣ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΝ ΕΠΙΓΕΝ- NHMA . VER . 19. Yet if we look , etc. ] But the Author having NOTES . VER . 15. Let fuch teach others ] " Qui ...
Page 99
... last , we are to confider it but as a mere outward garb , fitted only to hide the defects of a mis - fhapen one . As to Wit , it might perhaps be In fome fair body thus th ' informing foul With ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 99.
... last , we are to confider it but as a mere outward garb , fitted only to hide the defects of a mis - fhapen one . As to Wit , it might perhaps be In fome fair body thus th ' informing foul With ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 99.
Page 109
... last rea- fon is only justifying one fault by another , our author goes on [ from ver , 168 to 181. ] to vindicate the Ancients ; and to fhew that this feverity of opinion proceeds from mere Ignorance . As where their partiality will ...
... last rea- fon is only justifying one fault by another , our author goes on [ from ver , 168 to 181. ] to vindicate the Ancients ; and to fhew that this feverity of opinion proceeds from mere Ignorance . As where their partiality will ...
Page 128
... last to lay the old afide . But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song , 340 And smooth or rough , with them , is right or wrong : In the bright Mufe tho ' thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt ...
... last to lay the old afide . But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song , 340 And smooth or rough , with them , is right or wrong : In the bright Mufe tho ' thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt ...
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Page 84 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 187 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 50 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 44 - On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Page 171 - Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant brain, While Peers, and Dukes, and all their sweeping train, And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear...
Page xv - All that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients ; and it will be found true that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them.
Page 112 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Page 119 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.
Page 177 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Page 211 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?