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... attempted - Paterculus and Clarendon , Pliny and Melmoth - Detection of a blunder in the trans- lation of a passage in the Bible , adapted to the recommendation of Psalmody . 29. Letter from Vir Bonus , containing a description of his ...
... attempted - Paterculus and Clarendon , Pliny and Melmoth - Detection of a blunder in the trans- lation of a passage in the Bible , adapted to the recommendation of Psalmody . 29. Letter from Vir Bonus , containing a description of his ...
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... attempt may have raised some degree of curiosity within the circle to which it is addressed , as it is in itself new and un- précedented in the annals of Eton , I think it incum- bent on me , before I proceed any farther , to give an ...
... attempt may have raised some degree of curiosity within the circle to which it is addressed , as it is in itself new and un- précedented in the annals of Eton , I think it incum- bent on me , before I proceed any farther , to give an ...
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... attempt , I can plead the great examples both of ancient and modern learning : Virgil and Pope produced their Pastorals long before the one became the glory of Rome as her epic poet , or the other of Britain , as her philosopher and sa ...
... attempt , I can plead the great examples both of ancient and modern learning : Virgil and Pope produced their Pastorals long before the one became the glory of Rome as her epic poet , or the other of Britain , as her philosopher and sa ...
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... attempt would be useless , the enemies ( if enemies I had ) harmless . Profit cannot be my object , when the circulation is confined to such a narrow compass , and even that I would not wish to enlarge ; if this essay will defray the ...
... attempt would be useless , the enemies ( if enemies I had ) harmless . Profit cannot be my object , when the circulation is confined to such a narrow compass , and even that I would not wish to enlarge ; if this essay will defray the ...
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... attempt . I have always seen too much care , too much attention , paid to every appearance of ар- plication , and a laudable ambition of excelling , to suppose , that they will obstruct my harmless and inoffensive endeavours . If they ...
... attempt . I have always seen too much care , too much attention , paid to every appearance of ар- plication , and a laudable ambition of excelling , to suppose , that they will obstruct my harmless and inoffensive endeavours . If they ...
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Page 249 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 249 - His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.
Page 169 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh, a marble face ; Plead better at the bar ; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise.
Page 85 - All on a summer's day." I cannot leave this line without remarking that one of the Scribleri, a descendant of the famous Martinus, has expressed his suspicions of the text being corrupted here, and proposes instead of " all on " reading " alone ", alleging, in favour of this alteration, the effect of solitude in raising the passions.
Page 184 - Yet all these were, when no man did them know; Yet have from wisest ages hidden beene: And later times things more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is, but that which he hath scene?
Page 135 - With dust dishonour'd, and deform'd with gore. As the young olive, in some sylvan scene, Crown'd by fresh fountains with eternal green, Lifts the gay head, in snowy flowrets fair, And plays and dances to the gentle air; When lo ! a whirlwind from high heaven invades The tender plant, and...
Page 68 - I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a...
Page 81 - I too am not entirely destitute of abilities of this kind ; but that by possessing a decent share of critical discernment, and critical jargon, I am capable of becoming a very tolerable commentator. For the proof of which, I shall rather prefer calling the attention of my readers to an object, as yet untreated of by any of my immediate predecessors, than venture to throw in my observations on any work which has before passed the ordeal of frequent examination. And this I shall do for two reasons...
Page 81 - I to take occasion to shew that I too am not entirely destitute of abilities of this kind; but that by possessing a decent share of critical discernment, and critical jargon, I am capable of becoming a very tolerable commentator. For the proof of which, I shall rather prefer calling the attention of my readers to an ob°ject, as yet untreated of by any of my immediate...
Page 91 - Thus have I industriously gone through the several parts of this wonderful work ; and clearly proved it, in .every one of these parts, and in .all of them together, to be a due and proper epic poem ; and to have as good a right to that title, from its adherence to prescribed rules, as any of the celebrated master-pieces of antiquity. And here I cannot help again lamenting, that by not knowing the name of the author, I am unable to twine...