A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer; and sold, 1757 - 76 pàgines |
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... should think deferving our attention , is the AGE in which the writer lived . One should know if it were an age addicted to much study , and in which it was credit- able for the best writers to make a fhew of their read- ing . Such ...
... should think deferving our attention , is the AGE in which the writer lived . One should know if it were an age addicted to much study , and in which it was credit- able for the best writers to make a fhew of their read- ing . Such ...
Pàgina 17
... should choose to de- corate his Scene with an Italian sky . The Connoif- feur would fay , he had copied this particular from Titian and not from Nature . I prefume then to give it for a certain note of Imitation , when the properties of ...
... should choose to de- corate his Scene with an Italian sky . The Connoif- feur would fay , he had copied this particular from Titian and not from Nature . I prefume then to give it for a certain note of Imitation , when the properties of ...
Pàgina 21
... philofophy ( which nourish'd the fine spirits of that time , tho ' it corrupted fome ) he should make the Β 3 other other speaker in the Scene cry out , as in OF IMITATION . 21 But most by lewd and lavish act of Sin, ...
... philofophy ( which nourish'd the fine spirits of that time , tho ' it corrupted fome ) he should make the Β 3 other other speaker in the Scene cry out , as in OF IMITATION . 21 But most by lewd and lavish act of Sin, ...
Pàgina 35
... should happen to displease . Here we have a very striking coincidence of fenti- ment , without the leaft probability of imitation . For no body , I dare fay , fufpects Colonel William Jeph- fon of stealing this refined stroke of ...
... should happen to displease . Here we have a very striking coincidence of fenti- ment , without the leaft probability of imitation . For no body , I dare fay , fufpects Colonel William Jeph- fon of stealing this refined stroke of ...
Pàgina 39
... should make an exchange ; Ovid take Virgil's fea , and Vir- gil be contented with Ovid's water . However this be , you may be fure the authority of the Prince of the Latin poets will carry it with admiring posterity f above all fuch ...
... should make an exchange ; Ovid take Virgil's fea , and Vir- gil be contented with Ovid's water . However this be , you may be fure the authority of the Prince of the Latin poets will carry it with admiring posterity f above all fuch ...
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A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of Imitation Richard Hurd,William Mason Visualització completa - 1757 |
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Pàgina 30 - Paffion, all confus'd ; Still by himfelf abus'd or difabus'd; Created half to rife, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of Truth, in endlefs Error hurl'd: The glory, jeft, and riddle of the world...
Pàgina 17 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Pàgina 55 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Pàgina 7 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Pàgina 43 - Bear me, some god ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense ; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursued th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it, and form'da dream.
Pàgina 43 - Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd.
Pàgina 33 - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape. Could he, whofe rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Defcribe or fix one movement of his Mind ? Who faw its fires here rife, and there...
Pàgina 23 - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Pàgina 20 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Pàgina 13 - All muft be falfe that thwart this One great End ; And all of God, that blefs Mankind or mend.