The works of Richard Hurd, Band 3 |
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... language ? Has not every art , nay , every science , been taught in this way ? And , if the vulgar use of any mode of writing be enough to discredit it , can there be room even for wit and genius to retrieve the honour of this trite and ...
... language ? Has not every art , nay , every science , been taught in this way ? And , if the vulgar use of any mode of writing be enough to discredit it , can there be room even for wit and genius to retrieve the honour of this trite and ...
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... cast of the several parts was the same , the language of the Dialogue would require no alteration . It was indifferent , in this respect , whe were the speakers . In general , the reason , why character is pre- PREFACE . 37.
... cast of the several parts was the same , the language of the Dialogue would require no alteration . It was indifferent , in this respect , whe were the speakers . In general , the reason , why character is pre- PREFACE . 37.
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... language of conver- sation , it is so much the same between persons of education and politeness , that , whether the subject be interesting , or otherwise , all that you can expect is that the general cast of expression will be some ...
... language of conver- sation , it is so much the same between persons of education and politeness , that , whether the subject be interesting , or otherwise , all that you can expect is that the general cast of expression will be some ...
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... language with some of those spruce turns and negligent affectations , by which , as a writer , he was so well known . It is , at least , on this principle that the Author of the fol- lowing Dialogues must rest his apology for having ...
... language with some of those spruce turns and negligent affectations , by which , as a writer , he was so well known . It is , at least , on this principle that the Author of the fol- lowing Dialogues must rest his apology for having ...
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... language of it ) that there is nothing equal to them , in Antiquity itself : and I have sometimes fancied , that even LIVY'S Dialogues , if they had come down to us , would perhaps have lost something , on a compa- rison with these ...
... language of it ) that there is nothing equal to them , in Antiquity itself : and I have sometimes fancied , that even LIVY'S Dialogues , if they had come down to us , would perhaps have lost something , on a compa- rison with these ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ABRAHAM COWLEY ADDISON affection allodial ancient appear ARBUTHNOT authority bear-baiting better called canon law character chivalry CICERO circumstances civil civil law constitution conversation court COWLEY crown deserve DIALOGUE DIALOGUE II DIGBY doubt earl of Essex EDMUND WALLER ELIZABETH English entertainment expence fancy favour favourite feudal fortune genius give glory hath Hence honour house of STUART humour instance king ladies justice language least liberty Lord Lord CLARENDON lordship manner matter mean ment mind Muse nation nature neral never noble observed occasion panegyric perhaps persons philosophic pleasure poetry poets pretend prince principles proper purpose queen racter reason reign respect retirement scene shew Socratic Dialogue SOMERS sort speak spirit suppose sure ther thing thou thought tion Tithono true truth turn virtue WALLER words writer zeal
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 148 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, * Compare Shakespeare's LXVI. Sonnet. To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...
Seite 205 - I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay...
Seite 160 - Enriching moisture dropp'd on every thing; Plenty he sow'd below, and cast about him light. But then (alas !) to thee alone, One of old GIDEON'S miracles was shown; For every tree, and every herb around, With pearly dew was crown'd, And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lye, And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry. It did all other threats surpass When God to his own people said, (The men, whom thro...
Seite 187 - ... if he were taken once, then what shift, with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them, and when he was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice, with the blood and the slaver about his phisnomy, was a matter of goodly relief.
Seite 158 - A wondrous hieroglyphic robe she wore, In which all colours and all figures were That Nature or that Fancy can create, That art can never imitate ; And with loose pride it wanton'd in the air. In such a dress, in such a well-clothed dream, She used of old, near fair Ismenus' stream, Pindar, her Theban favourite, to meet ; A crown was on her head, and wings were on her feet.
Seite 164 - Kings have long hands, they say; and, though I be " So distant, they may reach at length to me. " However, of all princes, thou...
Seite 161 - The Rachel for which, twice seven years and more, Thou didst with faith and labour serve, And didst (if faith and labour can) deserve, Though she contracted was to thee, Giv'n to another, who had store Of fairer and of richer wives before, And not a Leah left thy recompense to be.
Seite 68 - Hic subit et perfert. Aut virtus nomen inane est, Aut decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. Coram rege suo de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent ; distat sumasne pudenter An rapias.
Seite 162 - Thou, wicked spirit ! stalest me away, And my abused soul didst bear Into thy new-found worlds, I know not where, Thy golden Indies in the air ; And ever since I strive in vain My ravish'd freedom to regain ; Still I rebel, still thou dost reign ; Lo, still in verse, against thee I complain.
Seite 159 - Thou thoughtst, if once the public storm were past, All thy remaining life should sunshine be: Behold the public storm is spent at last, The sovereign...