This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1764 edition. Excerpt: ...gained a reputation By acting a bad play, nor a musician by playing on a bad instrument. xiii. Poets seem to have fame, in HeU of most temporal advantages. They are too little formed for business, to be respected: too often feared or envied, to be beloved. XIV. Tully ever seemed an instance to me, hovf far a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1764 edition. Excerpt: ...gained a reputation By acting a bad play, nor a musician by playing on a bad instrument. xiii. Poets seem to have fame, in HeU of most temporal advantages. They are too little formed for business, to be respected: too often feared or envied, to be beloved. XIV. Tully ever seemed an instance to me, hovf far a man devoid of courage, may be a spirited writer, XV. One would rather be a stump of laurel thaa the stump of a churchyard yew-tree, XVI. Degere more terae. Virg. Vanbrugh seems jo have had this of Virgil in his eye When he introduces Miss Hoyden envying the liberty of a grey-hound bitch. XVII. There is a certain flimziness of poetry, which seems expedient in a song. XVIII, Dido, xvni. Dido, as well as Desdemona seems to have been a mighty admirer of strange achievements. Heu quibus ille. Jactatus tatis, quae bella exhausta conebat. Si mihi non, &c. This may shew that Virgil, Shakefpear, and Shaftsbury agreed in the fame opinion. XIX." It li often observed of wits, that they will lose their best friend for the sake of a joke. Candor may discover, that it is their greater degree of the love of fame, not the less degree of their benevolence which is the cause. XX. People in. high or in distinguished life ought to have a greater circumspection in regard to their most trivial actions. For instance, I saw M. Pope--and what was he doing when you saw him?--why to the best of my memory, he was picking his nose. Lord Shaftsbury. XXL Evek XXI. Even Joe Miller in his jests has an eye to poetical justice; generally gives the victory or Kirns the laugh on the side of merit. No small compliment to mankind. XXII. To say a person writes a good style, is originally as pedantick an expression as to fay he plays a good fiddle. A.A-111. The first.
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