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 6C. 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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Page 28
... observe a striking similarity . Both poets ; both devoted to their art ; both avoiding a marriage life ; and equally remarkable for affectionate attachment to an aged mother . Both possessed of an elegant sufficiency , and providing ...
... observe a striking similarity . Both poets ; both devoted to their art ; both avoiding a marriage life ; and equally remarkable for affectionate attachment to an aged mother . Both possessed of an elegant sufficiency , and providing ...
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... observation : " I am glad to find in your smaller edition , that your con- science has since given this line some correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : The players and I are luckily ...
... observation : " I am glad to find in your smaller edition , that your con- science has since given this line some correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : The players and I are luckily ...
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... observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Ho- race are more agreeable than ...
... observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Ho- race are more agreeable than ...
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... Man ; but we must admit that many of his observations were well founded , and that they evince considerable classical knowledge , as well as shrewdness . Bowles . If want provoked , or madness made them print , 52 PROLOGUE TO.
... Man ; but we must admit that many of his observations were well founded , and that they evince considerable classical knowledge , as well as shrewdness . Bowles . If want provoked , or madness made them print , 52 PROLOGUE TO.
Page 53
... observed , in favour of Pope , that Dr. Clarke , whose critical exactness is well known , has not been able to point out above three or four mistakes in the sense throughout the whole Iliad . The real faults of that trans- lation are of ...
... observed , in favour of Pope , that Dr. Clarke , whose critical exactness is well known , has not been able to point out above three or four mistakes in the sense throughout the whole Iliad . The real faults of that trans- lation are of ...
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Page 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Page 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 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.
Page 36 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Page 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Page 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Page 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Page 63 - 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, Alike...
Page 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Page 388 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.