An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Band 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... shall do in the order in which they occur , not cenfuring or commending any , without a reafon affigned . 1. Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone , But felt th ' approaches of too warm a fun ; For fame , impatient of extremes ...
... shall do in the order in which they occur , not cenfuring or commending any , without a reafon affigned . 1. Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone , But felt th ' approaches of too warm a fun ; For fame , impatient of extremes ...
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... shall we not find that their beauty ariseth from the appearance of use , or the imitation of natural things , whose beauty is originally founded on the fame principle ? Which is in- deed , the grand diftinction between Grecian and ...
... shall we not find that their beauty ariseth from the appearance of use , or the imitation of natural things , whose beauty is originally founded on the fame principle ? Which is in- deed , the grand diftinction between Grecian and ...
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... shall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore ‡ . OVID is also another writer of a bad tafte , on whom POPE employed fome of his youth- ful hours ; in tranflating ...
... shall prevail ; Place on their heads that crown diftain'd with gore , Which these dire hands from my flain father tore ‡ . OVID is also another writer of a bad tafte , on whom POPE employed fome of his youth- ful hours ; in tranflating ...
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... shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond ; it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was was to form his ideas of the turn and manner 92 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
... shall speak no more of it . THE Imitation of Spenfer is the fecond ; it is a description of an alley of fishwomen . He that was unacquainted with Spenfer , and was was to form his ideas of the turn and manner 92 ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS.
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... SHALL conclude this fection with a story , which POPE himfelf related , because it is cha- racteristical of his old friend , and I fhall give it in the very words which POPE used , when he told it . " Dr. Swift has an odd blunt way ...
... SHALL conclude this fection with a story , which POPE himfelf related , because it is cha- racteristical of his old friend , and I fhall give it in the very words which POPE used , when he told it . " Dr. Swift has an odd blunt way ...
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Adamo Addiſon addreffed Æneid againſt alfo almoſt alſo beautiful becauſe beſt Boccacio Boileau Bolingbroke cauſe character Chaucer defign deſcription Dryden Dunciad Effay elegant epiftle Euripides excellent expreffed expreffion exquifite faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fentiments fhall fhew finiſhed firft firſt fome fpeaking fpecies fpirit ftill ftriking ftrong fubject fublime fuch genius himſelf hiſtory Homer Horace Iliad images imitation juft laft laſt lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius manner Milton moft moſt muſt nature obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffion perfon Petrarch philofopher piece Pindar pleafing pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry POPE Pope's prefent profe publiſhed Quintilian racter reader reaſon ſay SCENA ſee ſeems ſhe ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeaks ſtate Statius ſtory ſuch Swift tafte taſte thefe theſe thofe thoſe tion tranflation uſe verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe words writer δε και
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Seite 126 - Lo the poor Indian! whofe untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His foul proud fcience never taught to ftray, Far as the folar walk or milky way ; Yet fimple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill an humbler heav'n
Seite 288 - Why did I write ? what fin, to me unknown, Dipt me in ink, my parents or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd
Seite 329 - O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine! Be no unpleafing melancholy mine! Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing age * ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the
Seite 317 - run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he fpeaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet fqueaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad *, Half froth, half venom, fpits himfelf abroad. In puns, or politics, or tales, or lyes, Or fpite, or fmut, or rhymes, or blafphemies.—
Seite 174 - Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hoftile millions prefs him to the ground ? His fall was deftin'd to a barren ftrand, A petty fortrefs and a dubious hand;' He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a
Seite 243 - Confult the GENIUS* of the place in all, That tells the waters, or to rife or fall; Or helps th' ambitious hill the heav'ns to fcale, Or fcoops in circling theatres the vale; Calls in the country, catches op'ning glades, Joins willing woods, and varies fhades from
Seite 38 - airs, Enchanting fhell! the fullen cares, And frantic paffions hear thy foft controul. On Thracia's hills the lord of war Has curb'd the fury of his car, And dropp'd his thirfty lance at thy command. Perching on the fceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king, With ruffled
Seite 156 - work'd folely for thy good, Thy joy, thypaftime, thy attire, thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly fpread the flowery lawn: Is it for thee the lark afcends and fings ? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings
Seite 204 - 15. See how the world its veterans rewards, A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpofe, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend ; A fop their paffion, but their prize a fot, Alive, ridiculous ; and dead, forgot
Seite 17 - iflcs, Plac'd far amid the melancholy Main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles, Or that aerial beings fometimes deign To ftand, embodied, to our fenfes plain) Sees on the naked hill or valley low, The whilft in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vaft aflembly moving to and fro, Then all at once in air diflblves the