The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, Band 4C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... less forgive ) of his friends . They had called men of virtue and ho- nour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers ; and some had been such old offenders , that he had quite for- gotten their ...
... less forgive ) of his friends . They had called men of virtue and ho- nour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers ; and some had been such old offenders , that he had quite for- gotten their ...
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... less thought of : Law can pro- nounce judgment only on open facts ; Morality alone can pass censure on intentions of mischief ; so that for secret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what ...
... less thought of : Law can pro- nounce judgment only on open facts ; Morality alone can pass censure on intentions of mischief ; so that for secret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what ...
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... less in their morals , than in their writings ; must poverty make nonsense sacred ? If so , the fame of bad authors would be much better consulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been ...
... less in their morals , than in their writings ; must poverty make nonsense sacred ? If so , the fame of bad authors would be much better consulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been ...
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... less uncertain the judgments concern- * Characters of the times , p . 45 . † Female Dunciad , p . ult . Dunciad dissected . § Roome , paraphrase on the ivth of Genesis , printed 1729 . || Character of Mr. P. and his Writings , in a ...
... less uncertain the judgments concern- * Characters of the times , p . 45 . † Female Dunciad , p . ult . Dunciad dissected . § Roome , paraphrase on the ivth of Genesis , printed 1729 . || Character of Mr. P. and his Writings , in a ...
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... less peremptory is the censure of our hyper- critical Historian , MR . OLDMIXON . " I dare not say any thing of the Essay on Cri- ticism in verse ; but if any more curious reader has discovered in it something new which is not in ...
... less peremptory is the censure of our hyper- critical Historian , MR . OLDMIXON . " I dare not say any thing of the Essay on Cri- ticism in verse ; but if any more curious reader has discovered in it something new which is not in ...
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Seite 12 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Seite 337 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Seite 341 - Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries all.
Seite 294 - The critic Eye, that microscope of Wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit...
Seite 299 - Show all his paces, not a step advance. With the same cement, ever sure to bind, We bring to one dead level every mind. Then take him to develop, if you can, And hew the block off, and get out the man. 270 But wherefore waste I words? I see advance Whore, pupil, and laced governor from France. Walker! our hat' nor more he deigned to say, But, stern as Ajax
Seite 245 - Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease 'Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease; And proud his Mistress' orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Seite 245 - I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
Seite 38 - The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Seite 185 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Seite 303 - To lands of singing, or of dancing slaves, Love-whispering woods, and lute-resounding waves. But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the lion of the deeps; Where, eased of fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth eunuch and enamour'd swain.