 | British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...make them soon perceive, what despicable creatures our common rhymers and play-wrights be; and shew them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things. N° 50. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1753. turpi frauds iemel innotuit, i*mii... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...observe. This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhimers and play writers be ; and show them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things. From hence, and not till now, will be the right season of forming... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhimers and play writers be ; and shew them what religious, what glorious, and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human 'things." — Prose Works, vol. I. p. 281. * Oper. vol. X. p. 360. Thou, in... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 334 pages
...make them soon perceive, what despicable creatures our common rhymers and play-wrights be; and shew them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things.' Z. N« 50. SATURDAY, APRIL 38, 1753. Quicunquc turpi frnutlr semel... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 686 pages
...observe. This would make them soon perceive, what despicable creatures our common rhymers and pluy-wrights be ; and show them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things.' Z No. 50. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1753. Quicunque turpifraude semel innotuit,... | |
 | John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 pages
...observe. This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers and playwrights be ; and show them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things." Z. No. 50. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1753. Quicunque turpi fraude semel... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 650 pages
...make them soon perceive, what despicable creatures our common rhymers and play-wrights be; and shew them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things.' — Z. N" 50. SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1753. Qniciinqae taipi fraude semel... | |
 | 1828 - 746 pages
...observe. This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers and play writers be, and show them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry both in divine and human things.'.—(Tract on Education.) We have enlarged the more upon this head,... | |
 | 1824 - 782 pages
...grown in the fishpond of his garden. And, to use his own nervous words — " This would make him soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers and playwriters be, and show him, what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...them ' soon perceive what despicable " creatures our common rhymers ' and play-writers be : and shew ' what religious, what glorious ' and magnificent use might be ' made of poetry." Milton's own writings are the most illustrious proof of this. T. Warlan. 19. Not those new-fangled... | |
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Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe. 
