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... Librat ies, and are confidered as the fineft that were written before the time of Mahommed.”----Sir William's Effay on the Poetry of the Eallern Nations, PAGE 135. 4 fame tribe' with Hofeirz;- and, when the Abfites were approaching in warlike array to ...
... taftes differ nearly as much as our features and complexions, yet we may fafely.recommend this fpecimen of ancient Arabich poetry as natural and pathetick in a high degree ; the original compofition, as.melodious., and elegant ; and the fentirnents, as ...
... had at the Theatre, and no money to be taken at the doors. IWr. HAY LEY in his lalt publication, entitled an Efay on Epic - Poetry, pays the following elegant compliment to Sir Wilt , . • ham Jones. 4 O ' thou bright Spirit, whom the Afian mute Had I(tn ...
... ever done much juftice to his merit, yet the natureof his merit has not always been fern- in its true light: for, though his poetry he elegant, he certainly bears a higher rank among the profe writers, than he is intitled to among the poets ; and, in profe; ...
... being with eafe included in our heroic verfe, which is nut fa loag by many fyllables. There have 'been many pieces of EngHai poetry Itanflated into Latin, and, in general nothing can read *tore dead :inanimate& in the eighth volume of the Spe&ator is a ...
... volumes, has prevented their being made this ufe of, as they might have (hewed the progrefs of orthograhy as well as of dramatic poetry. In the reign of James the Firft were many attempts to reduce orthography altogether to pronunciation. In our time we have ...
... a Rate of strength, and then verge by degrees to a decline, which at hit ends in a total extinEllon. The Englilh language, poetry, and mnfic, exhibit proofs of this obfervation, as far as they have as yet gone : with the two former I have at prefent nothing ...
... things that did not betray itfelf, within three bars, to be modern. It is as difficult to imitate ancient mufic as ancient poetry ; a few fquare notes are not fufficient for the one, nor will two or three 'whams and ekes do for the other. And yet in this ...
... audience, have hitherto taken part with Hamlet. They hr.ve not only pi• tied, but cfleemed him ; and the voice of the people, in poetry well as politics, deferves fome attention. Let us enquirc, therefore, whether ' ...
... was abforbed in his own brightnefs. • The facred writings of the Hindoos, in the Shanfcrit language. SPECIMEN of SARAGON POETRY: on a CAT killed in a Dove-Houfe. WEET Pufs, whom as a child I lov'd, SAnd as a child now mourn ; From home ungrateful haft ...
... Books. BOOKS and PAMPHLET'S, oil Hillory, Surgery, and Medicine. Travels and Voyages. Phi/olophy and Education: Plays and Poetry. Divinity and Law. Novels and Romances' Politics. On State and Todia'Affairs.r Stationary, a new afTortment. Pen-knives and ...
... or Triplet ; another the hal Gyn.s.yeld, or Hen ganiad. The memorial Ode of the ancient ilrain ; another, what in Englifh Poetry would be called the Anapmftic. There are leveret kinds Prnnill metres, that may be adapted and fung to moll of the following ...