Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2J. Murray, 1807 |
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... Tacitus . But Virgil died before Livy had written his history , or Tacitus was born . An honest friar , who compiled a church his- tory , has placed in the class of ecclesiastical writers , Guarini , the Italian poet ; this arose from a ...
... Tacitus . But Virgil died before Livy had written his history , or Tacitus was born . An honest friar , who compiled a church his- tory , has placed in the class of ecclesiastical writers , Guarini , the Italian poet ; this arose from a ...
Page 448
... some particular author of congenial disposition . " Pope , in his version of Homer , kept a constant eye on his Master Dryden ; Corneille's favourite authors were the brilliant Tacitus , the heroic Livy , 448 LITERARY COMPOSITION .
... some particular author of congenial disposition . " Pope , in his version of Homer , kept a constant eye on his Master Dryden ; Corneille's favourite authors were the brilliant Tacitus , the heroic Livy , 448 LITERARY COMPOSITION .
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... Tacitus and Livy to give dignity to his style , as he writes in a letter . Tacitus did not surpass him in his portraits , though Clarendon never equalled Livy in his narrative . The mode of literary composition adopted by that admirable ...
... Tacitus and Livy to give dignity to his style , as he writes in a letter . Tacitus did not surpass him in his portraits , though Clarendon never equalled Livy in his narrative . The mode of literary composition adopted by that admirable ...
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... writers as Tacitus , of Strada , and of Mariana , but these refined writers are for deriving it from fome pro- found policy , or intricate deception . In their their ftudious leifure , it must have been with difficulty ( 14 )
... writers as Tacitus , of Strada , and of Mariana , but these refined writers are for deriving it from fome pro- found policy , or intricate deception . In their their ftudious leifure , it must have been with difficulty ( 14 )
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... Tacitus , Witness Rhadamiftus , who threw his beloved wife into a river , that she might not fall into the hands of another . ' · The duke obferves , The art of fetting off moderate qua- lifications , fteals esteem ; and often gives ...
... Tacitus , Witness Rhadamiftus , who threw his beloved wife into a river , that she might not fall into the hands of another . ' · The duke obferves , The art of fetting off moderate qua- lifications , fteals esteem ; and often gives ...
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Page 483 - Two such I saw what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinkt hedger at his supper sat...
Page 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Page 478 - ... angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Page 489 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, 'This chief transcends his father's fame.' While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
Page 139 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 460 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Page 461 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 64 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Page 469 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 462 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...