The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... firft aggreffors . They had tried , till they were weary , what was to be got by rail- ing at each other : Nobody was either concerned or fur- prized , if this or that fcribbler was proved a dunce . But every one was curious to read ...
... firft aggreffors . They had tried , till they were weary , what was to be got by rail- ing at each other : Nobody was either concerned or fur- prized , if this or that fcribbler was proved a dunce . But every one was curious to read ...
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... ( firft edit . faid to be printed for A. Dodd ) in the 10th page , declared Gildon to be the author of that libel ; though in the fubfequent editions of his Key he left out this affertion , and affirmed ( in the Curliad . p . 4. and 8 ...
... ( firft edit . faid to be printed for A. Dodd ) in the 10th page , declared Gildon to be the author of that libel ; though in the fubfequent editions of his Key he left out this affertion , and affirmed ( in the Curliad . p . 4. and 8 ...
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... firft the most ancient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . His precepts are falfe or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harth and unmufical , his rhymes trivial and common ...
... firft the most ancient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . His precepts are falfe or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harth and unmufical , his rhymes trivial and common ...
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... firft pla- " giaries , that pretend to make a reputation by steal- " ing from a man's works in his own life - time , and " out of a public print . " Let us join to this what is written by the author of the Rival Modes , the faid Mr ...
... firft pla- " giaries , that pretend to make a reputation by steal- " ing from a man's works in his own life - time , and " out of a public print . " Let us join to this what is written by the author of the Rival Modes , the faid Mr ...
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... firft Brutus , for love of liberty ; and to Sir Robert Walpole , for good Government while in powers : At another time , to the godlike Socrates for his diverfions and amufements : to Horace , Montaigne , and Sir William Temple , for an ...
... firft Brutus , for love of liberty ; and to Sir Robert Walpole , for good Government while in powers : At another time , to the godlike Socrates for his diverfions and amufements : to Horace , Montaigne , and Sir William Temple , for an ...
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Página 24 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Página 273 - 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...
Página 272 - ... all the great characters of the age, and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
Página 263 - 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
Página 81 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of music caus'd by emptiness.
Página 236 - Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce ; Or, set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Página 84 - Call forth each mass, a Poem or a Play : How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie, How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry, 60 Maggots, half-form'd, in rhyme exactly meet, And learn to crawl upon poetic feet.
Página 24 - As for those which are the most known, and the most received, they are placed in so beautiful a light, and illustrated with such apt allusions, that they have in them all the graces of novelty, and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, still more convinced of their truth and solidity.
Página 207 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests.
Página 207 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.