The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de bien penser] by father Bouhours. To which are added parallel quotations out of English authors1728 |
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... Poets Ignorance of it , or their Dependance on the Ignorance of their Hearers and Readers , tho ' they have been taught better , as by the laft Duke of Bucks , Figures Figures of Speech , which Poets think so fine , vi DEDICATION .
... Poets Ignorance of it , or their Dependance on the Ignorance of their Hearers and Readers , tho ' they have been taught better , as by the laft Duke of Bucks , Figures Figures of Speech , which Poets think so fine , vi DEDICATION .
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John Oldmixon. Figures of Speech , which Poets think so fine , Are all but Paint upon a beauteous Face , And in ... Poet's and Orator's Brain is always de- lirious . But let the bold Adventurer be fure That every Line the Teft of ...
John Oldmixon. Figures of Speech , which Poets think so fine , Are all but Paint upon a beauteous Face , And in ... Poet's and Orator's Brain is always de- lirious . But let the bold Adventurer be fure That every Line the Teft of ...
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... Poet ; and that what be thought neceffary for the Improvement of Letters must needs be fo . I am not fo vain as to think it was for my Abilities that he gave me this Hint ; but he knew very well I would fpare no Pains to collect ...
... Poet ; and that what be thought neceffary for the Improvement of Letters must needs be fo . I am not fo vain as to think it was for my Abilities that he gave me this Hint ; but he knew very well I would fpare no Pains to collect ...
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... Poet's Coft . Says the Duke of Bucks . Authors , both ancient and modern , have been apt to run into Error , not only out of Ignorance , but fometimes out of Vanity , and a fond Defire of fhining always : Think not fo much to shine in ...
... Poet's Coft . Says the Duke of Bucks . Authors , both ancient and modern , have been apt to run into Error , not only out of Ignorance , but fometimes out of Vanity , and a fond Defire of fhining always : Think not fo much to shine in ...
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... Poet feems to be very fond of the Similitude between the Truth and the Fiction . Two Princeffes are facrificed , the one by the Judge of Ifrael , the other by the King of Argos , to appease the Goddess Diana . One is as true as another ...
... Poet feems to be very fond of the Similitude between the Truth and the Fiction . Two Princeffes are facrificed , the one by the Judge of Ifrael , the other by the King of Argos , to appease the Goddess Diana . One is as true as another ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 344 - Thus fell the greatest subject in power, and little inferior to any in fortune, that was at that time in any of the three kingdoms; who could well remember the time, when he led those people, who then pursued him to his grave. He was a man of great parts, and extraordinary endowments of nature ; not unadorned with some addition of art and learning, though that again was more improved and illustrated by the other...
Página 369 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 91 - ... of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing; all that we admired and adored before, as great...
Página 61 - In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods and meadows; and at the same time hears the warbling of birds, and the purling of streams; but upon the finishing of some secret spell, the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath, or in a solitary desert.
Página 93 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing: Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air...
Página 296 - When it does not let him sleep, it is a flame that sends up no smoke ; when it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it.
Página 281 - Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Página 77 - Hither, as to their fountain , other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Página 231 - ... in a way so very becoming, that the air of the pretty gentleman is preserved, under the lowliness of the preacher. I...
Página 91 - ... of this earth ; what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous: she glorified herself, and lived deliciously; and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow.