The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 5F. and C. Rivington, 1795 |
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... refpect to the illuftrious fubject of it , but by its prolixity and trifling minutenets of information does little honour to the judgment of the original writer . The Biographical Sketches accompanying Mr. Cham- berlain's collection of ...
... refpect to the illuftrious fubject of it , but by its prolixity and trifling minutenets of information does little honour to the judgment of the original writer . The Biographical Sketches accompanying Mr. Cham- berlain's collection of ...
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... refpect to that part of the city which they call the Gardens , and the Temple of Venus which it contains , there is nothing in thefe worthy of being noticed . For there is not any thing remarkable in the ftatue of Venus which is near ...
... refpect to that part of the city which they call the Gardens , and the Temple of Venus which it contains , there is nothing in thefe worthy of being noticed . For there is not any thing remarkable in the ftatue of Venus which is near ...
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... refpect of a few individuals , but the love of whole cities ; and not only be admired privately , within the walls of your own palace , but publickly , and by the whole world . " You may alfo , if you defire it , either go abroad to fee ...
... refpect of a few individuals , but the love of whole cities ; and not only be admired privately , within the walls of your own palace , but publickly , and by the whole world . " You may alfo , if you defire it , either go abroad to fee ...
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... refpect ; and the more willingly , because it ap- pears to us the better written of the two whether it was that practice had improved the author's talent for writing ; or that , treading chiefly upon claffic ground , he derived an ...
... refpect ; and the more willingly , because it ap- pears to us the better written of the two whether it was that practice had improved the author's talent for writing ; or that , treading chiefly upon claffic ground , he derived an ...
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... refpect to others , or vain - glory refpecting himfelf : he never heaped his materials toge- ther , though , as this ... refpects there Tyrwhitti Poetica Ariftotelis . 45.
... refpect to others , or vain - glory refpecting himfelf : he never heaped his materials toge- ther , though , as this ... refpects there Tyrwhitti Poetica Ariftotelis . 45.
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Page 270 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 197 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 301 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 229 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 199 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 199 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Page 249 - Written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon. " Deem not, devoid of elegance, the sage, By Fancy's genuine feelings unbeguil'd, Of painful pedantry the poring child; Who turns of these proud domes the historic page, Now sunk by Time, and Henry's fiercer rage. Think'st thou the warbling Muses never smil'd On his lone hours ? Ingenuous views engage His thoughts, on themes unclassic falsely styl'd, Intent.
Page 303 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 395 - Such a constitution as this would make the mighty leviathan of a shorter duration than the feeblest creatures, and not let it...
Page 629 - I began this first book, I had some thoughts of translating the whole Iliad ; but had the pleasure of being diverted from that design, by finding the work was fallen into a much abler hand. I would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publishing this small specimen of Homer's Iliad, than to bespeak, if possible, the favour of the public to a translation of Homer's Odysseis, wherein I have already made some progress.