The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 3J. Murray, 1881 |
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... , EARL OF BURLINGTON Introductory Notice . - Remarks of Warburton - Bowles . - Dis- cussion as to the Character of Timon - Remarks upon the principles of Taste inculcated in the Essay . 159 EPISTLE V. - TO ROBERT , EARL OF OXFORD ,
... , EARL OF BURLINGTON Introductory Notice . - Remarks of Warburton - Bowles . - Dis- cussion as to the Character of Timon - Remarks upon the principles of Taste inculcated in the Essay . 159 EPISTLE V. - TO ROBERT , EARL OF OXFORD ,
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... taste . But could this be said of Dennis , Ralph , Oldmixon , and the other scribblers whose ' poverty and obscurity ' were ridiculed in the ' Dunciad ' ? No doubt they ' set up for being wits , ' but was it the case that a great number ...
... taste . But could this be said of Dennis , Ralph , Oldmixon , and the other scribblers whose ' poverty and obscurity ' were ridiculed in the ' Dunciad ' ? No doubt they ' set up for being wits , ' but was it the case that a great number ...
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... taste have not affected Pope's position as one of the great English classics . In Pope , then , we have to do with a remarkably complex character . It will not do simply to brand him as a hypocrite , for the essence of hypocrisy ...
... taste have not affected Pope's position as one of the great English classics . In Pope , then , we have to do with a remarkably complex character . It will not do simply to brand him as a hypocrite , for the essence of hypocrisy ...
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... taste expounded in the Essay on Criticism . ' At the same time , in the last - named poem , the germs of his native satiric faculty showed themselves in those ' strokes of ill - nature , ' to which Addison objected in the ' Spectator ...
... taste expounded in the Essay on Criticism . ' At the same time , in the last - named poem , the germs of his native satiric faculty showed themselves in those ' strokes of ill - nature , ' to which Addison objected in the ' Spectator ...
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... taste in our own times make men reluctant to pay him the homage which is justly his due . For this reason I feel it to be desirable , in the preface to a volume which contains some of his most bril- liant and characteristic writing , to ...
... taste in our own times make men reluctant to pay him the homage which is justly his due . For this reason I feel it to be desirable , in the preface to a volume which contains some of his most bril- liant and characteristic writing , to ...
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Seite 381 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Seite 252 - View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 533 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Seite 118 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Seite 150 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends.
Seite 472 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field? Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions and his own? Names which I long have...
Seite 530 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 239 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song...
Seite 176 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Seite 91 - Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most women have no characters at all." Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguished by black, brown, or fair.