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... Look of foftening Love , whose Power can lull the moft watchful of the Senfes , should caft that sweet Nepenthe upon our Hearts , and enchant our corresponding Thoughts to reft in the Embraces of De- fire ? Sure then I am , that you ...
... Look of foftening Love , whose Power can lull the moft watchful of the Senfes , should caft that sweet Nepenthe upon our Hearts , and enchant our corresponding Thoughts to reft in the Embraces of De- fire ? Sure then I am , that you ...
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... look , as if " they had once been joined , but were afterwards fe- " parated from each other , by fome God , for the fake " of opening in the midft that large Plain , which stretches " in Length to about five Miles , and in Breadth , a ...
... look , as if " they had once been joined , but were afterwards fe- " parated from each other , by fome God , for the fake " of opening in the midft that large Plain , which stretches " in Length to about five Miles , and in Breadth , a ...
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... Looks , and a Wildness in the Attitudes of all his Figures , which , tho ' they are indeed correct , and agreeable to Nature in fome Moods , and cannot be condemned by the Judgment , are by no Means agreeable to the Eye ; and tho ' they ...
... Looks , and a Wildness in the Attitudes of all his Figures , which , tho ' they are indeed correct , and agreeable to Nature in fome Moods , and cannot be condemned by the Judgment , are by no Means agreeable to the Eye ; and tho ' they ...
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... look into the Lives of these two emi- nent Painters , we fhall obferve in them a correfponding Similarity to the different Defects and Excellencies in their respec- tive Performances . The firft , MICHAEL ANGELO , lived in the most ...
... look into the Lives of these two emi- nent Painters , we fhall obferve in them a correfponding Similarity to the different Defects and Excellencies in their respec- tive Performances . The firft , MICHAEL ANGELO , lived in the most ...
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... Looks , Deportment , and Tongue , over all his Words and Actions . Such , by the Ap- pointment of Heaven , has ever been , and ever will be the Power of these amiable Creatures ! I have fo much Vanity to think you will read the latter ...
... Looks , Deportment , and Tongue , over all his Words and Actions . Such , by the Ap- pointment of Heaven , has ever been , and ever will be the Power of these amiable Creatures ! I have fo much Vanity to think you will read the latter ...
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Æsop againſt AGATHOCLES almoſt ancient anſwer Applauſe arife ARISTUS Artiſt Author betwixt Cauſe cern Charms Compofitions Converfation CORINTHIAN Order Criticiſm CROESUS dare fay dear defcend defcribed defire Deſcription DORIC Order elegant enchanting ESOPUS eſpecially EUMELUS EUPHEMIUS Expreffion faid fame Fancy feems fhall fhould fince firft firſt fome foon Friend ftill fuch fuperior fure fweet Genius Goodneſs Grace greateſt Happineſs happy Heart herſelf Hiftory himſelf human Iliad Imagination Imitation Inftances ingenious itſelf JOVIANUS PONTANUS laft Landſcape laſt lefs LEONORA LETTER LETTER LINCO Love Mafters manner moft Moral moſt moſt beautiful muſt myſelf Nature Nymph Obfervation Occafion OVID Paffages Paffions pafs Peneus Pleaſure Poet poetical Poetry prefent PSYCHE Purpoſe Reafon reft Repreſentation Roscius ſay Senſe ſeveral ſhall ſhe Soul Species ſpent Spirits of Senfe ſpoke STROZZA Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe thro tion tivated Tranflation Truth uſe whilft whofe whoſe Wiſhes
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Page 114 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 97 - AWAY ; let nought to love displeasing, My Winifreda, move your care ; Let nought delay the heavenly blessing, Nor squeamish pride, nor gloomy fear. What though no grants of royal donors With pompous titles grace our blood ; We'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble, we'll be good.
Page 50 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 98 - How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Page 76 - My virgin flower uncropt, pure, chaste, and fair, No goblin, wood-god, fairy, elf, or fiend, Satyr, or other power that haunts the groves, Shall hurt my body, or by vain illusion Draw me to wander after idle fires, Or voices calling me in dead of night To make me follow, and so tole me on Through mire and standing pools, to find my ruin.
Page 41 - On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me : I started...
Page 29 - For Taste does not wholly depend upon the natural Strength and acquired Improvement of the Intellectual Powers; nor wholly upon a fine Construction of the Organs of the Body; nor wholly upon the intermediate Powers of the Imagination; but upon an Union of them all happily blended, without too great a Prevalency in either.
Page 38 - It show'd the bottom in a fairer light, Nor kept a sand conceal'd from human sight. The stream produc'd nor slimy ooze, nor weeds, Nor miry rushes, nor the spiky reeds ; But dealt enriching moisture all around, The fruitful banks with cheerful verdure crown'd, And kept the spring eternal on the ground.
Page 121 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?