Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 Seiten |
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... Addison violate only truth and good feeling . But it is not only in his individual portraits that he is carried beyond the limits of civility , his whole satire is pitched in a key which good taste is compelled to disown . It is ...
... Addison violate only truth and good feeling . But it is not only in his individual portraits that he is carried beyond the limits of civility , his whole satire is pitched in a key which good taste is compelled to disown . It is ...
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... Addison and Halifax ; but these pieces had been prepared long before . Pope was in no mood now to forgive the dead . This union of tender reference to a more brilliant past , with bitte bitter jealousy against the successful in the ...
... Addison and Halifax ; but these pieces had been prepared long before . Pope was in no mood now to forgive the dead . This union of tender reference to a more brilliant past , with bitte bitter jealousy against the successful in the ...
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... Addison ( Sat. and Ep . Prol . 193 ) he has mingled some traits of respect , which set off the imputations , and greatly heighten their effect . The character of Addison is Pope's masterpiece in this kind , because its injustice is ...
... Addison ( Sat. and Ep . Prol . 193 ) he has mingled some traits of respect , which set off the imputations , and greatly heighten their effect . The character of Addison is Pope's masterpiece in this kind , because its injustice is ...
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... Addison ( Sat. and Ep . Prol . 200 ) , he ' hated for arts that caus'd himself to rise . ' The Dunciad is the piece which is most obnoxious to this charge . It is wholly inspired by this animosity against needy authors . But the Satires ...
... Addison ( Sat. and Ep . Prol . 200 ) , he ' hated for arts that caus'd himself to rise . ' The Dunciad is the piece which is most obnoxious to this charge . It is wholly inspired by this animosity against needy authors . But the Satires ...
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... Addison possessed in boundless measure . How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well known . But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character , nay , that it would be ...
... Addison possessed in boundless measure . How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well known . But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character , nay , that it would be ...
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Seite 30 - 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...
Seite 125 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Seite 24 - 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 28 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Seite 146 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Seite 25 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, " Furies, death, and rage! " If I approve,
Seite 27 - One flatt'rer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes; One from all Grub Street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe.
Seite 25 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Seite 146 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.