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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... the various games instituted in honour of the new king , in which booksellers , poets , and critics contend . This design is , lastly , completed in the third book , by the Goddess's transporting the new king to her temple , B 2 3.
... the various games instituted in honour of the new king , in which booksellers , poets , and critics contend . This design is , lastly , completed in the third book , by the Goddess's transporting the new king to her temple , B 2 3.
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... death ; Lord Oxford , in his last decline of life ; Mr. Secretary Craggs , at the end of the South - Sea year , and after his death : others , only in epitaphs . P. most singly challenge this honour , not to have written 26 A LETTER.
... death ; Lord Oxford , in his last decline of life ; Mr. Secretary Craggs , at the end of the South - Sea year , and after his death : others , only in epitaphs . P. most singly challenge this honour , not to have written 26 A LETTER.
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... honour , not to have written a line of any man , which , through guilt , through shame , or through fear , through variety of fortune , or change of interests , he was ever unwilling to own . I shall conclude with remarking what a plea ...
... honour , not to have written a line of any man , which , through guilt , through shame , or through fear , through variety of fortune , or change of interests , he was ever unwilling to own . I shall conclude with remarking what a plea ...
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... their Histo- rians in our own tongue , and what is more for the honour of our language , it has been taught to ex- press with elegance the greatest of their poets in each nation . The illiterate among our own coun- trymen 42 TESTIMONIES.
... their Histo- rians in our own tongue , and what is more for the honour of our language , it has been taught to ex- press with elegance the greatest of their poets in each nation . The illiterate among our own coun- trymen 42 TESTIMONIES.
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... honoured commands for the same ; and that they are introduced not as wit- nesses in the controversy , but as witnesses that cannot be controverted ; not to dispute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers into two 48 ...
... honoured commands for the same ; and that they are introduced not as wit- nesses in the controversy , but as witnesses that cannot be controverted ; not to dispute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers into two 48 ...
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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.