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... objects well worthy attention in this view , and have , accordingly , often fet the prefs to work . The present Author , who does not feem to regard his work as worthy of his name , has thought that an addition might fea- fonably be ...
... objects well worthy attention in this view , and have , accordingly , often fet the prefs to work . The present Author , who does not feem to regard his work as worthy of his name , has thought that an addition might fea- fonably be ...
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... object : the one in the world that the daring and fublime imagination of Ho- mer would have been the most eager to grafp at . ' And here comes another of the fame family : vol . II . p . 53 , I fhall fpeak of one , the like of which ...
... object : the one in the world that the daring and fublime imagination of Ho- mer would have been the most eager to grafp at . ' And here comes another of the fame family : vol . II . p . 53 , I fhall fpeak of one , the like of which ...
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... object wanting to render the fcene compleat ; and it is hard to fay , whether the view is more pleafing from the fingularity of many of these objects , or from the incredible variety of the whole . You fee an amazing mixture of the ...
... object wanting to render the fcene compleat ; and it is hard to fay , whether the view is more pleafing from the fingularity of many of these objects , or from the incredible variety of the whole . You fee an amazing mixture of the ...
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... object in nature . It was the ftudy of this wild and beautiful country that formed our greatest landscape - painters ... objects , that they ftored their minds with that variety of ideas they have communicated to the world with fuch ...
... object in nature . It was the ftudy of this wild and beautiful country that formed our greatest landscape - painters ... objects , that they ftored their minds with that variety of ideas they have communicated to the world with fuch ...
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... objects in nature . Here you observe a gulph , that formerly threw out torrents of fire and smoke , now covered with the most luxuriant vegetation ; and from an object of terror , become one of delight . Here you gather the most ...
... objects in nature . Here you observe a gulph , that formerly threw out torrents of fire and smoke , now covered with the most luxuriant vegetation ; and from an object of terror , become one of delight . Here you gather the most ...
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Page 423 - Daring the reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, it was...
Page 117 - It is not smooth and even like the greatest part of the latter ; but is finely variegated by an infinite number of those beautiful little mountains that have been formed by the different eruptions of JEtna.
Page 418 - Congreve's four comedies, two are concluded by a marriage in a mask, by a deception, which perhaps never happened, and which, whether likely or not, he did not invent. So careless was this great poet of future fame, that though he retired to ease and plenty, while he was yet little declined into the vale of years...
Page 116 - Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under your feet; and you look down on the whole of Sicily as on a map; and can trace every river through all its windings, from its source to its mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it, so that the sight is every where lost in the immensity...
Page 418 - ... are read without any other reason than the desire of pleasure, and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obtained; yet, thus unassisted by interest or passion, they have passed through variations of taste and changes of manners, and, as they devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission.
Page 500 - So moves the sumpter-mule, in harness'd pride, That bears the treasure which he cannot taste. For him let venal bards disgrace the bay, And hireling minstrels wake the tinkling string ; Her sensual snares let faithless Pleasure...
Page 117 - All these have now acquired a wonderful degree of fertility, except a very few that are but newly formed ; that is, within...
Page 418 - ... profit. When his plays had been acted his hope was at an end; he solicited no addition of honour from the reader.
Page 471 - ... fiery and irregular in all his motions. His name was Genius. He darted like an eagle up the mountain, and left his companions gazing after him with envy and admiration : but his progress was unequal, and interrupted by a thousand caprices. When Pleasure warbled in the valley, he mingled in her train.
Page 111 - The evils of this life appear like rocks and precipices, rugged and barren at a distance ; but at our nearer approach we find little fruitful spots, and refreshing springs, mixed with the harshness and deformities of nature.