The Works of Monsieur Boileau, Volume 2E. Sanger, 1711 |
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Page 185 - What? Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid! What? Know ye not that that which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Page 85 - Mind is deprefs'd and broken by Slavery, it will never dare to think, or fay any thing bold. All its Vigour evapo-^ rates of it felf, and it remains always as in Bonds ; in jhort,to make ufe of .Homer'* ExprefJion.
Page 85 - Vw cultivate the Talents Nature has given them , infomuch, that we fee the Liberty of their Country jhine in their Orations. He goes on, but...
Page 177 - Tis you divest them of their own sublime, By your vile crudities, and humble rhyme. They're thine, when suffering thy wretched phrase. And then no wonder, if they meet no praise. With this may be compared the " Verses sent to Dean Swift ou his birthday, with Pine's Horace finely bound,
Page 2 - He often employs the Figure he teaches, and in talking of the Sublime, is himself most Sublime
Page 107 - Readers will be proud to read, And like your Elder Brothers, to fucceed ,Tho' the weak Offspring of my Age, you hope, As well as they...
Page 219 - of the Devil in you, only Angels have a more airy Shape, " and do not carry their Arm in a Scarfe. Raillery apart, " Hell is extreamly byafs'd to your Favour. There is but
Page 218 - Affairs of the living, and are not ex" ceedingly inclin'd to Mirth; yet I can't forbear rejoycing " at the great Things you do over our Heads. Serioufly " your laft Fight makes the Devil and all of Noife here be" low in a Place where the very Thunder of Heaven is not " heard ; and has made your Glory known in a Country, '* where even the Sun is not known.
Page 32 - ... in Longinus, and tranflated by Soileau. It is in the fublime Kind, and fhews the Violence of Love. From Vein to Vein I feel a fabtle Flame, When e'er I fee thee, run thro...
Page 85 - Indeed, can there be any thing, which raifes the Souls of great Men more than Liberty, any thing which...