Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 páginas |
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... thought to approach nearest to them . From the specimens which we have seen , it may be confidently expected , that the letters of Mr. Burke will be found eminently beautiful and interesting . † Of the works of the ancients , which time ...
... thought to approach nearest to them . From the specimens which we have seen , it may be confidently expected , that the letters of Mr. Burke will be found eminently beautiful and interesting . † Of the works of the ancients , which time ...
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... thought he perceived a great superiority in the former : he remembers when he thought the contrary . Age , he believes , makes us fas- tidious in poetry , and feel much more than we do in youth , the truth of the known observation of ...
... thought he perceived a great superiority in the former : he remembers when he thought the contrary . Age , he believes , makes us fas- tidious in poetry , and feel much more than we do in youth , the truth of the known observation of ...
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... thought to justify Gibbon's expression , that Pope's translation has every merit except that of like- ness to its original . " * 66 66 Melmoth in his " Letters of Sir Thomas Fitz - Osborne , " produces several instances , in which the ...
... thought to justify Gibbon's expression , that Pope's translation has every merit except that of like- ness to its original . " * 66 66 Melmoth in his " Letters of Sir Thomas Fitz - Osborne , " produces several instances , in which the ...
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... thought , greatly preferable to the Ovidian graces of Pope ? * * Melmoth prefers to the original , Pope's translation of the night- piece which follows the description of the second battle between the Trojans and Greeks . The former are ...
... thought , greatly preferable to the Ovidian graces of Pope ? * * Melmoth prefers to the original , Pope's translation of the night- piece which follows the description of the second battle between the Trojans and Greeks . The former are ...
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... thought to bear , on this account , a nearer resemblance to the original . It is true , that , if it be examined word for word , this will appear to be the case ; but , if the general effect of any one speech , or any one narrative , be ...
... thought to bear , on this account , a nearer resemblance to the original . It is true , that , if it be examined word for word , this will appear to be the case ; but , if the general effect of any one speech , or any one narrative , be ...
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Página 132 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Página 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 173 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, — without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of...
Página 133 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
Página 172 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals...
Página 131 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Página 173 - ... respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Página 76 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Página 80 - Nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. King, lords, and commons, are but the sport of his fury.
Página 23 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...