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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... dull poets , and wild critics . A person must be fixed upon to sup- port this action , who ( to agree with the design ) must be such an one as is capable of being all three . This phantom in the poet's mind must have a name . He seeks ...
... dull poets , and wild critics . A person must be fixed upon to sup- port this action , who ( to agree with the design ) must be such an one as is capable of being all three . This phantom in the poet's mind must have a name . He seeks ...
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... dull pedants , actual dunces , and pre- tended wits , and might have been strung up together in a thou- sand different forms , " to shew us which way blows the wind ; " but at the command of the poet , they all retired to their proper ...
... dull pedants , actual dunces , and pre- tended wits , and might have been strung up together in a thou- sand different forms , " to shew us which way blows the wind ; " but at the command of the poet , they all retired to their proper ...
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... dull ; and what it had no sooner said , but they themselves were at great pains to procure , or even purchase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been silent , if either I had seen ...
... dull ; and what it had no sooner said , but they themselves were at great pains to procure , or even purchase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been silent , if either I had seen ...
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... dull , have been constantly the topics of the most candid satirists , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of BOILEAU . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest poet and most judicious critic of his age and country , admirable for his ...
... dull , have been constantly the topics of the most candid satirists , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of BOILEAU . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest poet and most judicious critic of his age and country , admirable for his ...
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... dull duty of an editor . In this project let him lend the bookseller his name ( for a competent sum of money ) to promote the credit of an exorbitant subscription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to cast thine eye on the proposal below ...
... dull duty of an editor . In this project let him lend the bookseller his name ( for a competent sum of money ) to promote the credit of an exorbitant subscription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to cast thine eye on the proposal below ...
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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.