Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and GuardianSuttaby, Evance, and Fox; and Sharpe and Hailes, 1814 |
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... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
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... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
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... elegance , and had the honour of being liberally praised by Addison in the thirty - ninth number of The Lover . Having adopted the Whig principles of his friend , the path of political promotion was soon laid open to his view by the ...
... elegance , and had the honour of being liberally praised by Addison in the thirty - ninth number of The Lover . Having adopted the Whig principles of his friend , the path of political promotion was soon laid open to his view by the ...
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... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
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... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . His poems on the ...
... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . His poems on the ...
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Page 67 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 66 - The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every glorious theme, In distant lands now waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame. In happy climes, where from the genial sun • And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where Nature guides and Virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of...
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Page 88 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Page 104 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Page 227 - O'er which were shadowy cast elysian gleams, That played, in waving lights, from place to place ; And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
Page 66 - There shall be sung another Golden Age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 88 - Bodies half dissolv'd in Light. Loose to the Wind their airy Garments flew, Thin glitt'ring Textures of the filmy Dew; Dipt in the richest Tincture of the Skies, Where Light disports in ever-mingling Dyes, While ev'ry Beam new transient Colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their Wings.
Page 339 - Mind," of which the radical principles may indeed be found in Locke's ' Conduct of the Understanding ;' but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing.