Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons, with critical and explanatory notes by the editor [R. Hurd]. With letters on chivalry and romance by mr. Hurd, Band 2 |
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... taken for their speakers , not real , but ficti- tious characters ; contrary to the practice of the old writers ; and to the infinite disadvantage of this mode of writing , in every respect . THE love of truth , they fay , is fo natural ...
... taken for their speakers , not real , but ficti- tious characters ; contrary to the practice of the old writers ; and to the infinite disadvantage of this mode of writing , in every respect . THE love of truth , they fay , is fo natural ...
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... taken with Lu- CIAN'S Dialogue , that he has tranf- fused its highest graces into his own ; and employed thofe fine arms to better purpose against the Monks , than the forger of them had done , against the Philofophers . Ir must further ...
... taken with Lu- CIAN'S Dialogue , that he has tranf- fused its highest graces into his own ; and employed thofe fine arms to better purpose against the Monks , than the forger of them had done , against the Philofophers . Ir must further ...
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... ableft masters of the Socratic school employed it sparingly ; and that , when the noble Roman came to philosophize in the way of Dia- logue , he difdained to make any ufe of it , at all . IN And In a word , as it was taken up PREFACE . XXV.
... ableft masters of the Socratic school employed it sparingly ; and that , when the noble Roman came to philosophize in the way of Dia- logue , he difdained to make any ufe of it , at all . IN And In a word , as it was taken up PREFACE . XXV.
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... taken up , to ferve a turn , so it was very properly laid afide , with the occafion . even while the occafion lasted , this humorous manner was far enough , as I obferved , from being pushed to a Scenic licence ; the great artists in ...
... taken up , to ferve a turn , so it was very properly laid afide , with the occafion . even while the occafion lasted , this humorous manner was far enough , as I obferved , from being pushed to a Scenic licence ; the great artists in ...
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... taken such liberty , in one or two inftances , only : In which , how- ever , he has confined his imitation to the fingle purpofe of exhibiting fome degree of likeness to their ac- knowledged manner of expreffion , without attempting to ...
... taken such liberty , in one or two inftances , only : In which , how- ever , he has confined his imitation to the fingle purpofe of exhibiting fome degree of likeness to their ac- knowledged manner of expreffion , without attempting to ...
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Seite 117 - 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 today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 128 - s closed sight, (The Muses oft in lands of vision play) Body'd, array'd, and seen, by an internal light. A golden harp with silver strings she bore; A wondrous hieroglyphic robe she wore, In which all colours and all figures were, That nature or that fancy can create, That art can...
Seite 190 - 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 94 - Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from publick haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in ftones, and good in every thing.
Seite 133 - Ah ! wanton foe, dost thou upbraid The ills which thou thyself hast made ? When in the cradle innocent I lay, Thou, wicked spirit, stolest me away, And my abused soul didst bear Into thy new-found worlds, I know not where...
Seite 98 - Of" heav'nly reft this carneft to me lend, Let my life fleep, and learn to love her end. AND what if they, who have not the means of enjoying this...
Seite 134 - To wash away the inherent dye : Long work perhaps may spoil thy colours quite; But never will reduce the native white. To all the ports of honour and of gain I often steer my course in vain : Thy gale comes cross, and drives me back again.
Seite 94 - Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book...
Seite 132 - Leah left, thy recompence to be ! Go on: twice seven years more thy fortune try; Twice seven years more God in his bounty may Give thee, to fling away Into the court's deceitful lottery: But think how likely 'tis that thou, With the dull work of thy unwieldy plough...
Seite 128 - A wondrous hieroglyphick 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-cloth'd dream, She us'd, of old, near fair Ismenus' stream, Pindar, her Theban favourite, to meet ; A crown was on her head, and wings were on her feet.