The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection. With Several Pieces Never Before Published ... in Six Volumes, 2. kötetJohn Almon J. Debrett, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly, 1786 |
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... taste ; Whofe orb collects in one refulgent view The fcatter'd glories of Chinese Virtù ; And Readers of the prefent generation are fo very inattentive to what they read , that it is probable , one half of Sir William's may have ...
... taste ; Whofe orb collects in one refulgent view The fcatter'd glories of Chinese Virtù ; And Readers of the prefent generation are fo very inattentive to what they read , that it is probable , one half of Sir William's may have ...
6. oldal
... taste of the Chinese , to condemn that mean and paltry manner which Kent introduced , which Southcote , Hamilton , and Brown followed , and which , to our national difgrace , is called the English ftyle of gardening . He fhews the ...
... taste of the Chinese , to condemn that mean and paltry manner which Kent introduced , which Southcote , Hamilton , and Brown followed , and which , to our national difgrace , is called the English ftyle of gardening . He fhews the ...
8. oldal
... taste , and wit . Does Envy doubt ? Witnefs , ye chosen train ! Who breathe the sweets of his Saturnian reign ; Witnefs ye H * lls , ye J * ns * ns , Sc * ts , S * bb * s , Hark to my call , for fome of you have ears . Let D ** d H * e ...
... taste , and wit . Does Envy doubt ? Witnefs , ye chosen train ! Who breathe the sweets of his Saturnian reign ; Witnefs ye H * lls , ye J * ns * ns , Sc * ts , S * bb * s , Hark to my call , for fome of you have ears . Let D ** d H * e ...
9. oldal
... taste is founded . It is there- fore expreffed here with the greateft precifion , and in the identical phrafe of the great original . The figurative terms , and even the explanatory fimile , are entirely borrowed from Sir William's ...
... taste is founded . It is there- fore expreffed here with the greateft precifion , and in the identical phrafe of the great original . The figurative terms , and even the explanatory fimile , are entirely borrowed from Sir William's ...
11. oldal
... air , present him with rich wines , & c . and invite him to taste the sweets of retirement , on Perfian carpets , and beds of Camufathkin down . " Page 40 . B. 4 Huge Huge dogs of Tibet bark in yonder grove , Here [ 11 ]
... air , present him with rich wines , & c . and invite him to taste the sweets of retirement , on Perfian carpets , and beds of Camufathkin down . " Page 40 . B. 4 Huge Huge dogs of Tibet bark in yonder grove , Here [ 11 ]
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91. oldal - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire...
91. oldal - With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.
46. oldal - That all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality: age or virtue may give men a just precedency: excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level: birth may subject some, and alliance or benefits others, to pay an observance to those to whom nature, gratitude, or other respects, may have made it due: and yet all this consists with the equality, which all men are in...
92. oldal - First Shakspeare and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well-arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French,
92. oldal - ... his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail. For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet...
27. oldal - I write not for preferment's golden views. But hold ; 'tis on thy province to intrude : I would be loyal, but would not be rude. 125 To thee, my veteran, I his fame consign : Take thou St. James's, be- St. Stephen's mine, Hail, genial hotbed...
111. oldal - Mistaking time and place and character. Were it my fate to quit the mimic art, I'd
159. oldal - Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak , And Beauclerk to converse. " Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write ; Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite.
11. oldal - Terras re-ascend, Replace each vista, straighten every bend; Shut out the Thames; shall that ignoble thing Approach the presence of great Ocean's King ? No! let Barbaric glories feast his eyes, August Pagodas round his palace rise, And finish'd Richmond open to his view, "A work to wonder at, perhaps a
104. oldal - A statesman without power, and without gall, Hating no courtiers, happier than them all ; Bow'd to no yoke, nor crouching for applause ; Vot'ry alone to freedom and the laws. Herds, flocks, and smiling Ceres deck our plain, And, interspers'd, an heart-enlivening train.