Letters Concerning Taste: To which are Added, Essays on Similar and Other Subjects ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 - 220 pages |
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८८ Admiration Æsop AGATHOCLES almoſt ancient ARISTUS attend Beauty behold Cauſe Charms Cloſe compoſed Compoſitions Converſation CORINTHIAN Order Dafn dare ſay Defires delightful DEMOCRITUS deſcend deſcribed Deſcription Deſign Diſguſt Diſpoſition Diſtance elegant eſpecially eſteemed EUPHEMIUS Eyes faid falſe fame Fancy firſt fome foon Friendſhip fuch Genius Grace Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Hiſtory human Iliad Imagination Imitation ingenious inſpire Inſtances Inſtruction itſelf JOVIANUS PONTANUS juſt juſtly Landſcape laſt leſs LETTER LINCO Love Mankind manner Maſter Mind moral moſt muſt myſelf Nature neceſſary neſs Obſervation Occafion OVID Paffions Paſſages paſſed pleaſed Pleaſure Poet Poetry Power Precepts preſent raiſe Reaſon Repreſentation repreſented reſpective reſt RosCIUS ſaid ſame ſay ſeemed Senfe Senſe ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhewed ſhould ſmall ſmiling ſome Soul ſpeaking Species ſtands ſtill ſuch ſupported ſweet Taſte Temple theſe thoſe thou thro tion Tranſlation Tranſport Truth univerſal uſe utmoſt Virtue Votaries whilst whoſe Youth
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Page 128 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 193 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 37 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 24 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful...
Page 126 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Page 38 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Page 51 - When first with fresh-born vigour he inhales The balmy breeze, and feels the blessed sun Warm at his bosom, from the springs of life Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain!
Page 14 - Were destin'd ; some within a finer mould She wrought, and temper'd with a purer flame. To these the Sire omnipotent unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of himself.
Page 24 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Page 17 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...