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 43
עמוד 51
... Thing ! Pride , Pomp , and State but reach her outward part ; She fighs , and is no Duchess at her heart . you 56 But , Madam , if the fates withstand , and Are deftin'd Hymen's willing Victim too ; Trust not too much your now ...
... Thing ! Pride , Pomp , and State but reach her outward part ; She fighs , and is no Duchess at her heart . you 56 But , Madam , if the fates withstand , and Are deftin'd Hymen's willing Victim too ; Trust not too much your now ...
עמוד 59
... Thing , when firft fhe came to Town ; Her Shape unfashion'd , and her Face unknown : She was my friend ; I taught her first to spread 61 Upon her fallow cheeks enliv'ning red I introduc'd her to the Park and Plays ; And by my int'reft ...
... Thing , when firft fhe came to Town ; Her Shape unfashion'd , and her Face unknown : She was my friend ; I taught her first to spread 61 Upon her fallow cheeks enliv'ning red I introduc'd her to the Park and Plays ; And by my int'reft ...
עמוד 66
... thing from the felf fatisfaction the Critic had in his merit , of the Audience in their charity . With fo much mastery has the Poet executed , in this benevolent irony , that which he supposed Dennis himself , had he the wit to fee ...
... thing from the felf fatisfaction the Critic had in his merit , of the Audience in their charity . With fo much mastery has the Poet executed , in this benevolent irony , that which he supposed Dennis himself , had he the wit to fee ...
עמוד 76
... thing that's most uncommon ; ( Envy be filent , and attend ! ) I know a reafonable Woman , Handfome and witty , yet a Friend . Not warp'd by Paffion , aw'd by Rumour , Not grave thro ' Pride , or gay thro ' Folly , An equal mixture of ...
... thing that's most uncommon ; ( Envy be filent , and attend ! ) I know a reafonable Woman , Handfome and witty , yet a Friend . Not warp'd by Paffion , aw'd by Rumour , Not grave thro ' Pride , or gay thro ' Folly , An equal mixture of ...
עמוד 85
... thing we have of the kind from other hands ; yet , if we except the Epi- taph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the reft of our Author's writings . The nature of the ...
... thing we have of the kind from other hands ; yet , if we except the Epi- taph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the reft of our Author's writings . The nature of the ...
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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.