Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 26
עמוד i
... town after the CORONATION 53 The BASSET TABLE , an Eclogue Verbatim from Boileau 56 63 Answer to a Queftion of Mrs. Howe 64 Occafioned by fome verfes of his Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM 65 A prologue to a play for Mr. Dennis's benefit ...
... town after the CORONATION 53 The BASSET TABLE , an Eclogue Verbatim from Boileau 56 63 Answer to a Queftion of Mrs. Howe 64 Occafioned by fome verfes of his Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM 65 A prologue to a play for Mr. Dennis's benefit ...
עמוד 3
... town , what Objects could I meet ? The fhops fhut up in ev'ry street , And Fun'rals black'ning all the Doors , And yet more melancholy Whores : And what a duft in every place ? And a thin Court that wants your Face , And Fevers raging ...
... town , what Objects could I meet ? The fhops fhut up in ev'ry street , And Fun'rals black'ning all the Doors , And yet more melancholy Whores : And what a duft in every place ? And a thin Court that wants your Face , And Fevers raging ...
עמוד 13
... town , " Tis for the fervice of the Crown . " Lewis , the Dean will be of use , " Send for him up , take no excufe . " The toil , the danger of the Seas ; Great Minifters ne'er think of these ; Or let it cost five hundred pound , No ...
... town , " Tis for the fervice of the Crown . " Lewis , the Dean will be of use , " Send for him up , take no excufe . " The toil , the danger of the Seas ; Great Minifters ne'er think of these ; Or let it cost five hundred pound , No ...
עמוד 19
... Town , Where all that paffes , inter nos , Might be proclaim'd at Charing - Cross . Yet fome I know with envy fwell , Because they see me us'd fo well : " How think you of our Friend the Dean ? " I wonder what fome people mean ; σε < c ...
... Town , Where all that paffes , inter nos , Might be proclaim'd at Charing - Cross . Yet fome I know with envy fwell , Because they see me us'd fo well : " How think you of our Friend the Dean ? " I wonder what fome people mean ; σε < c ...
עמוד 21
... Town . O charming Noons ! and Nights divine ! Or when I fup , or when I dine , NOTES . 120 125 130 VER . 125. Thus in a fea , etc. ] Our Poet excells his friend in his own way of modernizing Horace . But this way is infinitely inferior ...
... Town . O charming Noons ! and Nights divine ! Or when I fup , or when I dine , NOTES . 120 125 130 VER . 125. Thus in a fea , etc. ] Our Poet excells his friend in his own way of modernizing Horace . But this way is infinitely inferior ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 386 - The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank. Accordingly we find that not our author's only but almost all the old comedies have their scene among tradesmen and mechanics; and even their historical plays strictly follow the common old stories or vulgar traditions of that kind of people.
עמוד 286 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
עמוד 322 - However it be, I do not know, I say, why this prejudice, well improved and carried as far as it would go, might not be made to conduce to the preservation of many innocent creatures, which are now exposed to all the wantonness of an ignorant barbarity.
עמוד 92 - Who knew no Wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heav'n's Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine.
עמוד 352 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
עמוד 388 - Another cause (and no less strong than the former) may be deduced from our author's being a player, and forming himself first upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member.
עמוד 196 - But all that lies between thefe, as Corn, Flower, Fruits...
עמוד 396 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
עמוד 378 - ... with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next...
עמוד 388 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.