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" Fairies were equally out of credit when MILTON wrote. He did well therefore to fupply their room with Angels and Devils. "
An Essay on Painting: In Two Epistles to Mr. Romney - Page 294
by William Hayley - 1781 - 96 pages
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

1764 - 202 pages
...popular creed (and they feem in a hopeful way from the liberty fome late critics have taken with them)l know not what other expedients the epic poet might...defcription, and even the fineft moral paintings, would Hand him in no Head. Without admiration (which cannot be effecled but by the marvellous of celeftial...
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Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several ..., Volume 3

Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1765 - 362 pages
...fhould wear out of the popu-r lar creed (and they feem in a hopeful way, from the liberty fome late critics have taken with them) I know not what other...know, the pomp of verfe, the energy of defcription, ind even the fineft moral paintings would Hand him in no ftead. Without admiration (which cannot be...
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Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Volume 3

Richard Hurd - 1776 - 358 pages
...too fhould wear out of the popular creed (and they feem in a hopeful way, from the liberty fome late critics have taken with them) I know not what other...the fineft moral paintings, would ftand him in no Head. Without admiration (which cannot be affeded but by the marvellous of celeftial intervention,...
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Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance: by the ...

Richard Hurd - 1776 - 354 pages
...too mould wear out of the popular creed (and they feem in a hopeful way, from the liberty fome late critics have taken with them) I know not what other...expedients the epic poet might have recourfe to; but this 1 know, the pomp of verfe, the energy of defcription, and even the fineft moral paintings, would ftand...
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Poetical Works, Volume 2

William Hayley - 1785 - 310 pages
...late Critics have taken with them) l know not what other expedients the Epic Poet might have recourie to ; but this I know — the pomp of verfe, the energy...of ' celeftial intervention, I mean the agency of fuperior ' natures really exifting, or by the illufion of the ' fancy taken to be fo) no Epic poem...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry: With Remarks, Volume 1

Henry Headley - 1787 - 212 pages
...too fhould wear out of the popular creed (and they feem in a hopeful way, from the liberty fame late critics have taken with them), I know not what other...cannot be effected but by the marvellous of celeftial inter* vention, I mean the agency of fuperior natures really exifting, or by the illufion of the fancy...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry: With Remarks, Volume 1

Henry Headley - 1787 - 202 pages
...too Ihould wear out of the popular creed (and they feem in a hopeful way, from the liberty fome late critics have taken with them), I know not what other...the fineft moral paintings, would ftand him in no ilead without admiratioa (which cannot be effected but by the marvellous of celeftial intervention,...
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Dialogues VII, VIII. On the uses of foreign travel. Lord Shaftesbury, Mr ...

Richard Hurd - 1788 - 368 pages
...too fhould wear out of the popular creed (and they feem in a hopeful way, from the liberty fome late critics have taken with them) I know not what other...him in no ftead. Without admiration (which cannot be affected but by the marvellous of celeftial intervention, I mean, the agency of fuperior natures really...
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Essays: Philosophical, Historical & Literary, Volume 3

William Belsham - 1791 - 312 pages
...natures really exifling, or by the illufion of the fancy taken to be fo, no Epic Poem can be long-lived : the pomp •of verfe, the energy of defcription, and even the fineft moral paintings, not being of themfelves of fufficient efficacy to refcue the Poet from oblivion." Ariftotle indeed...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2

Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...from the liberty1 Ibme late criticks have taken with them,) I know not what other expedients the epick poet might have recourfe to ; but this I know, the...fineft moral paintings, would ftand him in no ftead. \Vithout admiration (which cannot be effected but by the marvellous of celeftial intervention, I mean,...
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