The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 4C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... friends of real wisdom , science , and virtue , to exert themselves to prevent it . Can we in- deed for a moment suppose that the poet , at the close of his la- bours , would seriously have admitted that his opponents had been too ...
... friends of real wisdom , science , and virtue , to exert themselves to prevent it . Can we in- deed for a moment suppose that the poet , at the close of his la- bours , would seriously have admitted that his opponents had been too ...
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... friends , particularly of Cleland , Arbuthnot , and Gay ; but as their contributions have never been appropriated to their different authors , they are here given as the remarks of Pope . The reader is therefore requested to observe ...
... friends , particularly of Cleland , Arbuthnot , and Gay ; but as their contributions have never been appropriated to their different authors , they are here given as the remarks of Pope . The reader is therefore requested to observe ...
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... friends , but even strangers , appear engaged by humanity , to take some care of an orphan of so much ge- nius and ... friendship I esteem as one of the chief ho- 17.
... friends , but even strangers , appear engaged by humanity , to take some care of an orphan of so much ge- nius and ... friendship I esteem as one of the chief ho- 17.
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... friendship I esteem as one of the chief ho- nours of my life , and a much greater respect to truth , than to him or ... friends . They had called men of virtue and ho- nour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to ...
... friendship I esteem as one of the chief ho- nours of my life , and a much greater respect to truth , than to him or ... friends . They had called men of virtue and ho- nour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to ...
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... friend to be serious with such accusers , or if they had only meddled with his writings ; since whoever publishes , puts him- self on his trial by his country . But when his moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which ...
... friend to be serious with such accusers , or if they had only meddled with his writings ; since whoever publishes , puts him- self on his trial by his country . But when his moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which ...
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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 339 - 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 343 - 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 296 - The critic Eye, that microscope of Wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit...
Page 232 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 301 - 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 247 - 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 295 - While towering o'er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'ertops them all. Tis true, on words is still our whole debate, Disputes of me or te, of aut or at, To sound or sink in cano, O or A, Or give up Cicero to C or K.
Page 350 - He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them, either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the Dunciad...