The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Band 51847 |
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... sense , by the most harsh and uncouth diction . Pope succeeded in giving harmony to a writer , more rough and rugged than even any of his age , and who profited so little by the example Spenser had set , of a most musical and ...
... sense , by the most harsh and uncouth diction . Pope succeeded in giving harmony to a writer , more rough and rugged than even any of his age , and who profited so little by the example Spenser had set , of a most musical and ...
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... sense to hate it too : Yet here , as even in Hell , there must be still One giant - vice so excellently ill , That all beside , one pities , not abhors ; As who knows Sappho , smiles at other whores . I grant that poetry's a crying sin ...
... sense to hate it too : Yet here , as even in Hell , there must be still One giant - vice so excellently ill , That all beside , one pities , not abhors ; As who knows Sappho , smiles at other whores . I grant that poetry's a crying sin ...
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... Sense , past through him , no longer is the same ; For food digested takes another name . I pass o'er all those confessors and martyrs Who live like S - tt - n , or who die like Chartres , Out - cant old Esdras , or out - drink his heir ...
... Sense , past through him , no longer is the same ; For food digested takes another name . I pass o'er all those confessors and martyrs Who live like S - tt - n , or who die like Chartres , Out - cant old Esdras , or out - drink his heir ...
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... sense is much more confined ; being a short summary of moral duty fitted for a single people , upon a particular occasion , and to serve temporary ends . - Warburton . Ver . 48. makes a calf an ox , ] An unaccountable blunder in our ...
... sense is much more confined ; being a short summary of moral duty fitted for a single people , upon a particular occasion , and to serve temporary ends . - Warburton . Ver . 48. makes a calf an ox , ] An unaccountable blunder in our ...
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... sense ; or , in divinity , As controverters in vouch'd texts leave out Shrewd words , which might against them clear the doubt . Where are these spread woods which cloath'd here- tofore Those bought lands ? not built , not burnt within ...
... sense ; or , in divinity , As controverters in vouch'd texts leave out Shrewd words , which might against them clear the doubt . Where are these spread woods which cloath'd here- tofore Those bought lands ? not built , not burnt within ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable Ambrose Philips ancient animal appear Aristotle Bathos beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus called chapter character common court Crambe critics Curll Dunciad edition Edmund Curll epic poem epic poetry excellent expression eyes fable fool genius give hath head heroes Homer honour Horace Horses humour Iliad images imagine imitation invention judgment kind king lady language learning lines Lintot lived Lord manner master mean Milton modern nature never NOTES observed occasion opinion particular passage passion Pastoral person piece plain poet poetical poetry Pope praise Prince racter reader reason remarkable ridicule satire Scriblerus sense Shakespear Sir Robert Walpole sort speak speeches spirit style sublime taste Thalestris thee Theocritus thing thou thought tion translation true verse Virgil virtue Warburton Warton whole words writing written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 249 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Seite 64 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Seite 355 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Seite 366 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Seite 79 - VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Seite 357 - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine ; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Seite 471 - It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but 'steal wisely' : for art is only like a prudent steward that lives on managing the riches of nature. Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention...
Seite 57 - If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins and the...
Seite 449 - Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature, it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him.
Seite 247 - To which thou may'st add, To see her beauties no man needs to stoop, She has the whole horizon for her hoop. 4. The ANTITHESIS, or SEE-SAW,! whereby contraries and oppositions are balanced in such a way, as to cause a reader to remain suspended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation.