Hobby Horses: A Poetic Allegory ...M. Allen, 1797 - 144 pàgines |
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alias beauteous beſt bluſh bofom breaſt cauſe chafte cheek Cloſe connoiffeurs cries curious deſign ev'ry exiſtence eyes facred fair fairy fame fatire fcorn feduction feek feem feen fenfe fentiments fhall fhould fhun figh filent filver fing firft firſt fleep foft fome fometimes fond fongs foon foul fource fpur ftand ftill fubject fuch Genius George Colman grace heart Hercle himſelf HOBBY HORSES honeft Horfe Horſe Iron Cheft juſt laſt Lieut light Lord magic Melitis Mifs mind moft monſter moſt Mufe muft muſt nymphs o'er once Ovid paffion paſt Philofophers phraſe pleaſures pow'r praiſe ride rife ſcene ſelfiſh ſhall ſhape ſhe ſome ſpeak ſpeed ſprite ſtand ſtep ſtill ſuch Sylphs taſte tear Thalia thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro Titania Twas underſtand weeping whofe whoſe wiſh wretch
Passatges populars
Pàgina 35 - WANDERER, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
Pàgina 51 - Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery. Here pilgrims roam, that strayed so far to seek In Golgotha him dead who lives in Heaven ; And they who, to be sure of Paradise, Dying put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
Pàgina 16 - ... and Fielding, until she comes to the Sentimental Journey and finally to "Shandy's bolder height." Sterne's work is characterized as follows : Too little understood! too seldom read! Where is the gen'rous taste of letters fled ? Shall some light faults, ye captious critics say, A mighty load of massy worth outweigh? Is there no medium in the candid mind, Can moderation no fair balance find? When ye the merits of a work would learn, Why do ye thus all rules of justice spurn ? Indeed ye fall on...
Pàgina 44 - Of gentle carriage and of generous breed. Wide o'er the earth his liberal rides extend, Man's general lover, and all Nature's friend. Yet none e'er...
Pàgina 45 - Eulogy mould write. If with big meaning pregnant Fancy teem'd ; If o'er each thought, the light of Genius...
Pàgina 45 - To no fmall fpot of native earth allied, Above all influence of local pride, He cried with Goldfmith's energy divine, " Creation's Heir, the tuorlJ ! the world is mint I...
Pàgina 144 - Mille hominum fpecies, et rerum difcolor ufus. Velle fuum cuique eft ; nee voto vivitur uno.
Pàgina 43 - Few people are well acquainted with death : it is generally fubmitted to through ftupidity and cuftom, not refolution ; and moft men die merely becaufe they cannot help it.
Pàgina 16 - Reading proves the fource of all her joy. Th' Arabian Nights, the Fairy Tales, Gil Bias...
Pàgina 89 - Tis often as elegant to fupprefs as it is to exprei's a word, &c. fo that fupprefling the word that makes the particular application, one leaves the thought in a kind of ingenious ambiguity, &c.