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Pagina 17
... person whose genius and councils might be of fervice to him ; and Priolo refided with him a year at Munster , where he contracted a very intimate friendship with Chigi the nuncio , who was af- VOL . X. terwards C Memoirs of Mr. Prior by ...
... person whose genius and councils might be of fervice to him ; and Priolo refided with him a year at Munster , where he contracted a very intimate friendship with Chigi the nuncio , who was af- VOL . X. terwards C Memoirs of Mr. Prior by ...
Pagina 19
... person , he appointed him a gentleman of his bedchamber . This fituation afforded him leisure to indulge his genius for poetry ; and he then compofed several of his poems . He was again employed as fecretary to the English negotiations ...
... person , he appointed him a gentleman of his bedchamber . This fituation afforded him leisure to indulge his genius for poetry ; and he then compofed several of his poems . He was again employed as fecretary to the English negotiations ...
Pagina 21
... person admitted to fee him without leave of the speaker . In 1717 , an act of Grace paffed , but he was one of the perfons excepted out of it ; however , at the close of the year , he was difcharged from his confinement . He spent the ...
... person admitted to fee him without leave of the speaker . In 1717 , an act of Grace paffed , but he was one of the perfons excepted out of it ; however , at the close of the year , he was difcharged from his confinement . He spent the ...
Pagina 22
... person who writes false Latin , is proverbially faid to break Prifcian's head . " In Valefia- nis . PROCLUS , an eminent philofopher among the later Fabric.Bibl . platonifts , was born at Conftantinople in the year 410 , of pa- rents ...
... person who writes false Latin , is proverbially faid to break Prifcian's head . " In Valefia- nis . PROCLUS , an eminent philofopher among the later Fabric.Bibl . platonifts , was born at Conftantinople in the year 410 , of pa- rents ...
Pagina 52
... but they were only particular persons , who ne- ver made any fociety , nor had the Pythagoreans any more a public school . We find ftill extant a letter of public 52 PYTHAGORA S. way to Locris; but the Locrians, fearing the ...
... but they were only particular persons , who ne- ver made any fociety , nor had the Pythagoreans any more a public school . We find ftill extant a letter of public 52 PYTHAGORA S. way to Locris; but the Locrians, fearing the ...
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Pagina 348 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Pagina 501 - Caesar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise ? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others...
Pagina 348 - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time; And all the muses still were in their prime When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines, Which were so richly spun and woven so fit As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.
Pagina 341 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of other poets have a constant resemblance, which...
Pagina 501 - Oh ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
Pagina 464 - 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...
Pagina 483 - He Has vindicated Eloquence and Wit. His candid Stile like a clean Stream does slide, And his bright Fancy all the way Does like the Sun-shine in it play ; It does like Thames, the best of Rivers, glide, Where the God does not rudely overturn, But gently pour the Crystal Urn, And with judicious hand does the whole Current Guide. T' has all the Beauties Nature can impart, And all the comely Dress without the paint of Art.
Pagina 345 - I believe they meant those which had lain ever since the author's days in the playhouse, and had from time to time been cut, or added to, arbitrarily.
Pagina 344 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Pagina 338 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them some that made a frequent practice of deerstealing engaged him with them more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote near Stratford.