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,, Volume 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 - English literature |
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... common cry of the poetasters of the town , and their fautors , that it is an ill - natured thing to expose the pretenders to wit and poetry . The judges and magistrates may with full as good reason be reproached with ill - nature for ...
... common cry of the poetasters of the town , and their fautors , that it is an ill - natured thing to expose the pretenders to wit and poetry . The judges and magistrates may with full as good reason be reproached with ill - nature for ...
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... common : -instead of majesty , we have something that is very mean ; instead of gravity , something that is very boyish ; and in- stead of perspicuity and lucid order , we have but too often obscurity and confusion . " And in ano- ther ...
... common : -instead of majesty , we have something that is very mean ; instead of gravity , something that is very boyish ; and in- stead of perspicuity and lucid order , we have but too often obscurity and confusion . " And in ano- ther ...
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... common- place . Horace has even in his Art of Poetry thrown out several things which plainly shew he thought an Art of Poetry was of no use , even while he was writing one . " To all which great authorities , we can only op- pose that ...
... common- place . Horace has even in his Art of Poetry thrown out several things which plainly shew he thought an Art of Poetry was of no use , even while he was writing one . " To all which great authorities , we can only op- pose that ...
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... common , but such as the reader must assent to , when he sees them explained with that ease and perspicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the most known and the most re- ceived , they are placed in so beautiful a ...
... common , but such as the reader must assent to , when he sees them explained with that ease and perspicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the most known and the most re- ceived , they are placed in so beautiful a ...
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... common men could not lift from the ground ; just so , one single person has performed in this translation , what I once despaired to have seen * In his Essays , vol . i . printed for E. Curl . P. + Censor , vol . ii . No. 33 . P.t done ...
... common men could not lift from the ground ; just so , one single person has performed in this translation , what I once despaired to have seen * In his Essays , vol . i . printed for E. Curl . P. + Censor , vol . ii . No. 33 . P.t done ...
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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 294 - The critic Eye, that microscope of Wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit...
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.