The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volume 4J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son ... [and 24 others], 1806 |
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... whole Caftalian flate , as he calls it , to a Mock - Mecenas , whom he next defcribes ( ver . 124. to 261. ) And , ftruck with the fenfe of that dignity and cafe which fup- port the character of a true Poet , he breaks out into a ...
... whole Caftalian flate , as he calls it , to a Mock - Mecenas , whom he next defcribes ( ver . 124. to 261. ) And , ftruck with the fenfe of that dignity and cafe which fup- port the character of a true Poet , he breaks out into a ...
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... whole commiffion ends , The Play'rs and I are , luckily , no friends . 50 55 бо VARIATIONS . Fir'd VER . 53. in the MS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incline , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER . 60. in the former Ed ...
... whole commiffion ends , The Play'rs and I are , luckily , no friends . 50 55 бо VARIATIONS . Fir'd VER . 53. in the MS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incline , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER . 60. in the former Ed ...
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... whole frame of Nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurl'd , She unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack , And ftand fecure amidst a falling world . " On which lines he obferves , in the Bathos , " Sometimes a fingle word ( as ...
... whole frame of Nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurl'd , She unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack , And ftand fecure amidst a falling world . " On which lines he obferves , in the Bathos , " Sometimes a fingle word ( as ...
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... whole magic of his verfification . This year he began an epic poem ; the fame which Bp . Atterbury , long after- wards , perfuaded him to burn . Befides this , he wrote , in thofe early days , a Comedy and Tragedy , the latter taken ...
... whole magic of his verfification . This year he began an epic poem ; the fame which Bp . Atterbury , long after- wards , perfuaded him to burn . Befides this , he wrote , in thofe early days , a Comedy and Tragedy , the latter taken ...
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... whole army of wits , ) all of them exhibit the moft ftriking marks of accurate and extensive erndition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his ftrange and abfurd hypothefis of the faults which Milton's ...
... whole army of wits , ) all of them exhibit the moft ftriking marks of accurate and extensive erndition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his ftrange and abfurd hypothefis of the faults which Milton's ...
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Page 45 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Page 119 - For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew Immortal in his own despite.
Page 36 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 56 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 165 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
Page 391 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Page 56 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way, Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad!
Page 65 - 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 ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 309 - I touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall.
Page 353 - For we find thofe authors who have been offended at the literal notion of the Gods, conftantly laying their accufation againft Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe there might be to blame his machines in a philofophical...