 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...which was full as forcible. It was my lord Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verne; which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules, and of reducing the speculation into practice. For many a lair precept in poetry is, like a seeming demonstration in the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...was full as forcible. It was my lord Ros«•ommon's Essay on Translated Verse; which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules, and of reducing the speculation into practice. For many a fair precept in poetry is, like a seeming demonstration in the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules, and of reducing the speculation into practice. For many a fair precept in poetry is, like a seeming demonstration in the mathematics, very specious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...till I tried whether or no I was capable of " following his rules, and of reducing the specula" tion into practice. For many a fair precept in " poetry is like a seeming demonstration in mathe" maticks, very specious in the diagram, but fail" ing in the mechanick... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 610 pages
...forgive him who was the occafion of it. It was my Lord Rofcommon's Effay on Tranflated Verle ; which made me uneafy till I tried whether or no I was capable...precept in Poetry is like a feeming demonftration in the Mathematics, very fpecious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanic operation. I think I have... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 616 pages
...forgive him who was the occafion of it. It was my Lord Rofcommon's Efiay on Tranflated Verfe ; which made me uneafy till I tried whether or no I was ca.pable of following his rules, and of reducing the Ipeculation into practice. For many a fair precept in Poetry is like a fecming demonftration in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...cellanies : " It was my lord Roscommon's essay on translated " verse," says Dryden, " which made me uneasy, till " I tried whether or no I was capable of following " his rules, and of reducing the speculation into " practice. For many a fair precept in poetry is like a " seeming demonstration in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
..." It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on Trans*' lated Verse," says Dryden, " which made me un" easy, till I tried whether or no I was capable of " following his rules, and of reducing the specula. " tion into practice. For many a fair precept in " poetry is like a seeming demonstration... | |
 | 1816 - 762 pages
...[merbaniciis, Latin ; mectiaaijue, French ; from /<i^a»,] i. Conftrufled by the laws of mechanics.— Many a fair precept in poetry is like a feeming demonftration in mathematics, very fpecioui in the diagram, but failing in the mechanic operation. Drydev. — The main... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...Miscellanies : " It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on Translated ' Verse," says Dryden, " which made me uneasy, till ' I tried whether or no I was capable of following his ' rules, and of reducing the speculation into practice. ' For many a fair precept in poetry is like a seeming ' demonstration in... | |
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It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse ; which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules, and of reducing the speculation into practice. For many a fair precept in Poetry is like a seeming demonstration... 
