The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, 1769 - 578 Seiten |
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... thought , which is the cha- racteristic of that immortal effay and Mr. Locke had fo warmed and fortified his innate love of truth , that the only thing , he used to fay , he could never forgive his philofophic master , was the ...
... thought , which is the cha- racteristic of that immortal effay and Mr. Locke had fo warmed and fortified his innate love of truth , that the only thing , he used to fay , he could never forgive his philofophic master , was the ...
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... thought it pity he was neceffitated , by the ftraitness of his fortune , to act ( and especially to his latest hours ) an ima- ginary and fictitious part , who was capable of exhibiting a real one , with credit to himfelf , and ...
... thought it pity he was neceffitated , by the ftraitness of his fortune , to act ( and especially to his latest hours ) an ima- ginary and fictitious part , who was capable of exhibiting a real one , with credit to himfelf , and ...
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... thought myself the greatest genius that ever was . I cannot but regret thefe delightful vifions of my childhood , which , like the fine colours we fee when our eyes are fhut , are vanished for ever . " the virtues of fuffering , like ...
... thought myself the greatest genius that ever was . I cannot but regret thefe delightful vifions of my childhood , which , like the fine colours we fee when our eyes are fhut , are vanished for ever . " the virtues of fuffering , like ...
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... thought proper to conceal it from the public , I do not think myself at liberty to proclaim it for though the merit of the work is fuch , as , upon the whole , might do credit to any name , yet it is but decent to allow every writer to ...
... thought proper to conceal it from the public , I do not think myself at liberty to proclaim it for though the merit of the work is fuch , as , upon the whole , might do credit to any name , yet it is but decent to allow every writer to ...
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... thought that Mr. POPE had Milton's Mafque in remembrance , wherein the latter fpeaks of Thyrfis , " whofe artful ftrains have oft delay'd " The huddling brook to hear his madrigal . ” But this , compared to Mr. POPE's , is rather ...
... thought that Mr. POPE had Milton's Mafque in remembrance , wherein the latter fpeaks of Thyrfis , " whofe artful ftrains have oft delay'd " The huddling brook to hear his madrigal . ” But this , compared to Mr. POPE's , is rather ...
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AARON HILL addreffed admirable affured againſt anſwer beautiful becauſe beft beſt cenfure character compofition critic Dean Swift defcribed defcription defign defire difplayed Dunciad Effay effayift epiftle ev'ry excellent expreffed fafe faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fenfibility fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fincere firft firſt fome foon fpeaking fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill ftriking ftrong fubject fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fure genius himſelf honour Iliad illuftrated imagination inftance itſelf John Searl judgment juft juſt laft laſt learned lefs letter likewife Lord Lord Bolingbroke merit mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never nevertheleſs numbers obferves occafion paffage paffed paffion perfon piece pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect ridicule ſay ſcene ſeems ſpeak tafte thefe themſelves theſe lines thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation uſe verfe virtue whofe writings
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Seite 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Seite 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Seite 231 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Seite 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Seite 298 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Seite 229 - But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Seite 116 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...
Seite 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Seite 231 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest...
Seite 226 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.