The Microcosm, a Periodical Work: By Gregory Griffin ... Inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Davies. In Two Volumes, Volume 1C. Knight. Sold also by Mess. Robinsons, 1793 |
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... boast- ing of his Ancestors . - Different Notions of Pride as conceived by different perfons.- Folly of the Opinion that Mankind degenerates . -Mifapplication of the word An- tediluvian . - Antiquity of a British : Family certainly not ...
... boast- ing of his Ancestors . - Different Notions of Pride as conceived by different perfons.- Folly of the Opinion that Mankind degenerates . -Mifapplication of the word An- tediluvian . - Antiquity of a British : Family certainly not ...
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... boasts him- felf a Citizen . Thefe , as they afforded both enter- tainment and inftruction to him in their forma- tion , he prefumes to hope may be the fource of the one or the other to fome of his readers . In this Character I would ...
... boasts him- felf a Citizen . Thefe , as they afforded both enter- tainment and inftruction to him in their forma- tion , he prefumes to hope may be the fource of the one or the other to fome of his readers . In this Character I would ...
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... boast of their native foil , firft caught that generous enthufiafm for folid glory , which proved the fource of fuch renown to themselves and their country ; by which they reflected a mutual light on each other ; and which enabled the ...
... boast of their native foil , firft caught that generous enthufiafm for folid glory , which proved the fource of fuch renown to themselves and their country ; by which they reflected a mutual light on each other ; and which enabled the ...
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... boast of on the score of novelty , they have ་ as little on that of humour . If on the re-- ' petition of their witticifms , a grin takes poffef- • fion , of the countenance of their auditors , warn ' them that they mistake not the ...
... boast of on the score of novelty , they have ་ as little on that of humour . If on the re-- ' petition of their witticifms , a grin takes poffef- • fion , of the countenance of their auditors , warn ' them that they mistake not the ...
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... boasting a noble family . But from a probable fuppofition that this extravagant principle can only have taken root ... boasts not so much the antiquity as eminence of its family . Even this , however , though to a noble mind it is an ...
... boasting a noble family . But from a probable fuppofition that this extravagant principle can only have taken root ... boasts not so much the antiquity as eminence of its family . Even this , however , though to a noble mind it is an ...
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Page 130 - That age will never again return, when a Pericles, after walking with Plato in a portico built by Phidias and painted by Apelles, might repair to hear a pleading of Demosthenes or a tragedy of Sophocles.
Page 193 - Nor praife the learning of a dunce* profeft, Nor fwear a floven's elegantly dreft. Thus, if by chance, in harmlefs fport and play, You coolly -talk a character away ; Or boldly a flat perjurer appear, Nor gallows dread, nor lacerated ear, Still let your lyes to truth near neighbours be, And...
Page 153 - I would earnestly recommend an attentive perusal of it to all of them whose muses are engaged in compositions of the Epic kind. I am very much afraid that I may run into the error which I have...
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Page 148 - ... that, if he did refrain from the practice of this ingenious art, it was not from want of an inclination that way. We may remember too, that in Virgil's poem...
Page 140 - It is not improbable that some may object to me that a knave is an unworthy hero for an epic poem — that a hero ought to be all that is great and good. The objection is frivolous. The greatest work of this kind that the world has ever produced has
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Page 141 - She made some tarts, All on a summer's day ". Here indeed the prospect brightens, and we are led to expect some liveliness of imagery, some warmth of poetical colouring; but here is no such thing. There is no task more difficult to a poet than that of rejection. Ovid among the ancients, and Dryden among the moderns, were perhaps the most remarkable for the want of it. The latter, from the haste in which he generally produced his compositions, seldom paid much attention to the lima labor, "the labour...
Page 136 - A man guilty of breaking these, though he cannot be transported for a felon or indicted for treasonable practices, is yet, in the High Court of Custom, branded as a flagrant offender against decorum, as notorious for an unprecedented infringement on propriety. There is no race of men on whom these laws are more severe than authors, and no species of authors more subject to them than periodical essayists.
Page 134 - Swift, if he had listened to king William, would have been a cornet of horse. — How little the talents of the one were adapted to his office is well known ; what a figure the author of the Tale of the Tub would have made as. a cornet, I leave to my readers to judge : the Attic elegance and polished wit of Addison was lost amidst the turbulence of state intrigues; and the keen sarcastic genius of Swift was by no means fitted for the camp ; unless it can be proved, that humour can gain a battle,...