The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Band 6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... reason's throne , And loads the slave with honours not her own . 200 Big - swoln with folly , as her smiles provoke , Profaneness spawns , pert dunces nurse the joke ! Come , let us join awhile this tittering crew , And now the ideot ...
... reason's throne , And loads the slave with honours not her own . 200 Big - swoln with folly , as her smiles provoke , Profaneness spawns , pert dunces nurse the joke ! Come , let us join awhile this tittering crew , And now the ideot ...
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... reason at the helm preside , Bear to the wind , or stem the furious tide ; Then mirth may urge , when reason can explore , This point the way , that waft us glad to shore . Though distant times may rise in SATIRE's page , Yet chief ...
... reason at the helm preside , Bear to the wind , or stem the furious tide ; Then mirth may urge , when reason can explore , This point the way , that waft us glad to shore . Though distant times may rise in SATIRE's page , Yet chief ...
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... reason urged by wit . ' Twas then plain DONNE in honest vengeance rose , 415 His wit harmonious , though his rhyme was prose : He ' midst an age of puns and pedants wrote With genuine sense , and Roman strength of thought . Yet scarce ...
... reason urged by wit . ' Twas then plain DONNE in honest vengeance rose , 415 His wit harmonious , though his rhyme was prose : He ' midst an age of puns and pedants wrote With genuine sense , and Roman strength of thought . Yet scarce ...
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... opens all the virtues into bloom . This praise , immortal POPE , to thee be given ; Thy genius was indeed a gift from Heaven . 495 Hail , bard unequall'd , in whose deathless line Reason PART III . 23 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... opens all the virtues into bloom . This praise , immortal POPE , to thee be given ; Thy genius was indeed a gift from Heaven . 495 Hail , bard unequall'd , in whose deathless line Reason PART III . 23 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... Reason and wit with strength collected shine ; 500 Where matchless wit but wins the second praise , Lost , nobly lost , in truth's superior blaze . Did FRIENDSHIP e'er mislead thy wandering Muse ? That friendship sure may plead the ...
... Reason and wit with strength collected shine ; 500 Where matchless wit but wins the second praise , Lost , nobly lost , in truth's superior blaze . Did FRIENDSHIP e'er mislead thy wandering Muse ? That friendship sure may plead the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison admirable alludes atque Augustus Ben Jonson Bishop Boileau Bolingbroke Bowles called character corruption court Cùm Dialogue divine Donne Dryden Dunciad Earl Elijah Fenton Epistle father flatterers folly fool genius give grace heart honest honour Horace Houyhnhnm humour imitation king Lady laugh learned letter libels lines live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Cornbury Lucilius malè manner mihi minister moral Muse nature ne'er never NOTES numbers nunc o'er original passage person Pindaric pleased poem poet poet's poetry Pope Pope's praise quæ Queen Quid quod racter rage rhyme ridicule Sappho satire says sense shew Sir Robert Walpole smile soul spirit style Swift tamen taste tell thee thing thou thought tibi tion translation truth Twickenham verse vice virtue virtue's Voltaire Warburton Warton Whig words writ write wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 82 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Seite 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Seite 36 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Seite 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Seite 414 - ... male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Seite 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Seite 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Seite 63 - 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, Alike...