Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism ; The Moral EssaysLongmans, 1896 - 114 páginas |
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... Duchess of Cleveland , had great political influence in this reign ; and Louise de Querouaille , created Duchess of Portsmouth , was said to have had a large share in persuading Charles to sign the Treaty of Dover . L. 540. A courtier's ...
... Duchess of Cleveland , had great political influence in this reign ; and Louise de Querouaille , created Duchess of Portsmouth , was said to have had a large share in persuading Charles to sign the Treaty of Dover . L. 540. A courtier's ...
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... Duchess of Buckingham ; but she soon stopped the person who was reading them to her , as the Duchess of Portland informed me , and called out aloud , " I cannot be so imposed upon ; I see plainly enough for whom they are de- signed ...
... Duchess of Buckingham ; but she soon stopped the person who was reading them to her , as the Duchess of Portland informed me , and called out aloud , " I cannot be so imposed upon ; I see plainly enough for whom they are de- signed ...
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... Duchess of friends , or ' wealth ' of followers ? For it is evident that warmth of attachment , not warmth of temper , must be meant for otherwise it could not be called a ' means ' to the at- tainment of an ambitious person's ends . L ...
... Duchess of friends , or ' wealth ' of followers ? For it is evident that warmth of attachment , not warmth of temper , must be meant for otherwise it could not be called a ' means ' to the at- tainment of an ambitious person's ends . L ...
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... Duchess of Richmond ( ' La Belle Stuart ' of Grammont's Memoirs ) is said in Pope's note to have left annuities to her cats ; but Warton explains this by adding , that the annuities were really left to certain decayed gentlewomen ...
... Duchess of Richmond ( ' La Belle Stuart ' of Grammont's Memoirs ) is said in Pope's note to have left annuities to her cats ; but Warton explains this by adding , that the annuities were really left to certain decayed gentlewomen ...
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... where to flow . L. 202. Imperial works : Dryden had rendered Virgil's ' Hæ tibi erunt artes ' by the spirited verse , These are Imperial Arts , and worthy Thee . INDEX . Atossa ( Duchess of Marlborough ) , Cecilia IIO [ M. E. , IV . Potes .
... where to flow . L. 202. Imperial works : Dryden had rendered Virgil's ' Hæ tibi erunt artes ' by the spirited verse , These are Imperial Arts , and worthy Thee . INDEX . Atossa ( Duchess of Marlborough ) , Cecilia IIO [ M. E. , IV . Potes .
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Página 99 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Página 77 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Página 36 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 9 - Whoever thinks a faultless Piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Página 12 - whispers through the trees :" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with " sleep :" Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 77 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 53 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,
Página 63 - So proud, so grand: of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down : Who but must laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect, shivering at a breeze!
Página 63 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall ! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página 12 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...