The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... tion what Monfieur Boileau has fo well enlarged upon " in the preface to his works : That wit and fine wri- " ting doth not confift so much in advancing things " that are new , as in giving things that are known an " agreeable turn . It ...
... tion what Monfieur Boileau has fo well enlarged upon " in the preface to his works : That wit and fine wri- " ting doth not confift so much in advancing things " that are new , as in giving things that are known an " agreeable turn . It ...
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Samuel Johnson. the first Christian he meets " . Another gives informa- tion of Treafon discovered in his poem o . Mr. Curll boldly fupplies an imperfect verfe with Kings and Prin- ceffes P. And one Matthew Concanen , yet more im pudent ...
Samuel Johnson. the first Christian he meets " . Another gives informa- tion of Treafon discovered in his poem o . Mr. Curll boldly fupplies an imperfect verfe with Kings and Prin- ceffes P. And one Matthew Concanen , yet more im pudent ...
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... tion which the vileft and most immoral ribaldry hath " lately met with , I was furprized to see what I had " long defpaired , a performance deferving the name " Now is it not plain , that any one who fends fuch " compliments to another ...
... tion which the vileft and most immoral ribaldry hath " lately met with , I was furprized to see what I had " long defpaired , a performance deferving the name " Now is it not plain , that any one who fends fuch " compliments to another ...
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... tion . This Phantom in the Poet's mind must have a Name : He finds it to be course the Hero of the poem . 4 : and he becomes of The Fable being thus , according to the best exam- ple , one and entire , as contained in the Propofition ...
... tion . This Phantom in the Poet's mind must have a Name : He finds it to be course the Hero of the poem . 4 : and he becomes of The Fable being thus , according to the best exam- ple , one and entire , as contained in the Propofition ...
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... thought must needs be turned upon a real subject meet for laud and celebra- tion ; not one whom he is to make , but one whom he may find , truly illuftrious . This is the primum mobile of of his poetic world , whence every thing is to.
... thought must needs be turned upon a real subject meet for laud and celebra- tion ; not one whom he is to make , but one whom he may find , truly illuftrious . This is the primum mobile of of his poetic world , whence every thing is to.
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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.