The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... honours of my life , and a much greater respect to Truth , than to him or any man living , engaged me in inquiries ... honour bad Men , long before he had either leifure or inclination to call them bad Writers : And fome had been fuch ...
... honours of my life , and a much greater respect to Truth , than to him or any man living , engaged me in inquiries ... honour bad Men , long before he had either leifure or inclination to call them bad Writers : And fome had been fuch ...
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... honour of our " language , it has been taught to exprefs with elegance " the greatest of their poets in each nation . The illi- " terate among our own countrymen may learn to judge " from Dryden's Virgil of the most perfect Epic per ...
... honour of our " language , it has been taught to exprefs with elegance " the greatest of their poets in each nation . The illi- " terate among our own countrymen may learn to judge " from Dryden's Virgil of the most perfect Epic per ...
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... honour- able perfonages . And yet followeth another charge , infinuating no less than his enmity both to Church and State , which Z Daily Journal , March 18 , 1728 . could could come from no other informer than the faid Mr. 32 TESTIMONIES.
... honour- able perfonages . And yet followeth another charge , infinuating no less than his enmity both to Church and State , which Z Daily Journal , March 18 , 1728 . could could come from no other informer than the faid Mr. 32 TESTIMONIES.
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... honoured commands for the fame ; and that they are introduced not as witneffes in the controversy , but as witneffes that cannot be controverted : not to dif- pute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers into two ...
... honoured commands for the fame ; and that they are introduced not as witneffes in the controversy , but as witneffes that cannot be controverted : not to dif- pute , but to decide . Certain it is , that dividing our writers into two ...
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... honour and word of re a gentleman , that I never wrote fo much as one line in concert with any one man whatsoever . And these two Letters from Gildon will plainly fhew , that we are " not writers in concert with each other . ' Sir ...
... honour and word of re a gentleman , that I never wrote fo much as one line in concert with any one man whatsoever . And these two Letters from Gildon will plainly fhew , that we are " not writers in concert with each other . ' Sir ...
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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.